IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs Oracle Advanced Security comparison

"It tests security to support SOX compliance."

"The tool helps detect invalid login attempts within a specific time frame."

"It's allowing us to be more proactive than reactive on alerts and access rights and types of resources that are being hit. Before, there were a lot of different solutions, but this expanded that out and made it a more holistic solution. It provides centralization of monitoring, instead of multiple, disparate applications. It definitely allows more economies of scale, streamlining, less fragmented use."

"Gathering ​the data works very well. ​"

"One of the most valuable features is the accelerator. It has a predefined report for PCI SOX compliance and other compliances."

"It supports our audit compliance."

"What I like about IBM Guardium Data Protection is that some of its features were deployed by collectors during the installation phase. The solution has collector and aggregator features, license installation, and even server patches that you won't find in other security providers. I like the collector-aggregator capabilities of IBM Guardium Data Protection where you install each component on separate servers, then on the aggregator, you collect all the logs on a central server or central console."

"The features I like are the robust policies, which allow us to create customized monitoring based on specific activities."

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

"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."

"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."

"Since we are resellers we do not have enough information about the technical aspects and the areas of improvement. However, one consistent report that we receive from our customers is that IBM does not offer timely support due to the size of the organisation. It would be great if they could improve their response time."

"Initial setup is very complex. Once you start interacting with people's databases, they get very hesitant. Then, the amount of social tasks to socialize the solution ensuring people are comfortable with it became a much heavier lift."

"The solution lacks control over database security."

"Setup can be complex. The documentation is in so many different locations, and a lot of times we have to leverage support and higher level resources to figure out the right steps to take."

"The main issue I have with IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is the support. It's not good."

"The installation should be a bit easier."

"Personally, I would not recommend this product."

"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."

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

"I would suggest to review the type of data, need for security, and if the organizational structure needs the options IBM Guardium provides."

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

"The price of the solution could be better."

"It's an expensive solution"

"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."

"Guardium is most suitable for large scale enterprises because the pricing model is better if you are implementing a large number of databases."

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

"IBM Guardium Data Protection charges you based on the number of users, e.g. based on the number of licenses, and it's either on a per-license or a per-data basis."