IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs Oracle Advanced Security comparison

"We are using it to do a lot of data discovery from a data classification for structured data."

"Encryption is not straightforward, but Guardium made the setup easy for us."

"Accelerators is one of the big functions they have out there. It gives you canned reports that you don't have to make yourself, they're out there by being part of the patch. You just have to fill your information in to some of the already built groups, for your environment, and it automates a lot of that. That has definitely helped improve things."

"Ability to define reports based on SQL query, especially when you have complex report criteria."

"Compliance Quick Start – Quick, GUI, step-by-step guide to automate compliance and give the customer a quick ROI."

"Guardium lets you centrally manage aggregators and collectors."

"Audit Process Builder – Workflow generator to enhance audit tasks and compliance workflows."

"The most valuable feature is the GUI, the interface. It also interfaces well with REST API, if you want to automate some of the commands."

"The features that are the most used by the customers and partners are, at the moment, for GDPR, so obviously data encryption and data reduction. Our customers also like the partitioning option."

"The most valuable feature is the data encryption option for columns and tables."

"Flexibility could be improved."

"IBM Guardium Data Protection is a mature product. There is a lot of encryption that is not owned by IBM and is done by a third party and is not an integral part of the solution."

"Initially it did not have support external applications like, say, Tableau, ServiceNow, Remedy, and the like. They have started growing into it, but I would like to have more and more integration with outside applications."

"I would like to see AI and machine learning added in the future."

"Guardium could be improved in the area of data encryption."

"The ability for Central Managers to talk to one another could be improved. I have 26 Central Managers and 26 silos which are independent."

"We have had some issues with patches breaking things unexpectedly in our environments."

"Using the data in native Guardium is difficult, at best."

"Having a single command to encrypt a table would be an improvement."

"It is really constrained as an environment because you cannot change something that would be useful. It is a very good product because it is very similar to what you have on-premises. Yes, it is constrained, but it is expected because it is a platform as a service so it has to be constrained."

"We haven't talked much about pricing and licencing. But it is not cheap for sure"

"Guardium won mostly because of our scope and scale. It was able to perform at the scale that we wanted to use it. ​"

"Its cost is good. With the new metric of licensing, such as PDO not being available now, customers are expecting a good price for the solution."

"The price of Guardium is higher than the main competitor, Imperva. In addition, it's complex as the calculation of the licensing is done by Processor Value Unit (PVU). However, before purchasing a DAP solution, it is important to analyze specific points to evaluate the cost-benefit of each tool. For example: Does the environment to be monitored have mainframes? If so, it's a point for Guardium. If not, a point for Imperva. Note: IBM is looking into a new licensing policy and reducing the price of Guardium."

"The product's pricing is reasonable and affordable. It is in the moderate range."

"The price of the solution could be better."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is low price, and ten is very high price, I rate the solution's pricing a nine out of ten."

"Guardium's pricing is quite high, but it gives good value for money for all sizes of enterprises, especially for partners."