IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs Oracle Advanced Security comparison

"Our main focus for IBM Guardium is to support security initiatives and compliance policies within our organization. We use the DPD product for monitoring, especially for GDPR, SOX regulations and, of course, the vulnerability assessment that we use to make sure we're keeping up with our patches, making sure things are configured, making sure we're following the best practices."

"Guardium does a great job of capturing data and having the ability of trying to pull it out and make sense of it. Using it for business applications is its biggest capability."

"The possible number of databases and database servers which can be monitored by Guardium is high. For me, this is a differentiator of IBM."

"The most valuable features are the reporting and data-level access control."

"Provides a unified key management system to help simplify encryption key management."

"Setting up Guardium was easy and straightforward."

"I think IMB's technical support is good."

"It sends out an immediate alert when there's suspicious activity."

"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."

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

"I would like to see streamlining of some of the agent features, some of the patches; make it a little bit more user-friendly on the documentation."

"I would like to see IBM Guardium have other encryption algorithms employed."

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

"An area for improvement would be the user interface - currently, it takes around two to three months to become comfortable using it."

"Sometimes the performance is not good, and also sometimes we have sudden bugs causing difficulties."

"IBM should add more database security features to Guardium. They could add user profiling, anomaly detection, and machine learning. IBM has user profiling, but they need to strengthen it. It should make sense for the users. It should remove most of the false positives."

"The integration part of the present solution is very complex and tedious. Plus it gives a lot of false positives which need to be eradicated over time."

"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."

"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."

"​If you are researching this type of solution, work with IBM."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"Guardium has not saved us time or money."