IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs Oracle Advanced Security comparison

"Guardium lets you centrally manage aggregators and collectors."

"The most valuable feature is the visualization of data and the ability to monitor our databases."

"Our ability to see when users are accessing sensitive data."

"The maturity of the agent is the most valuable feature of the solution"

"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."

"It has automated a bunch of manual tasks, giving us insights into activities that we would not otherwise be able to capture."

"It supports our audit compliance."

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

"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."

"Needs nore cloud support."

"More predictive, using Watson AI would be good."

"Right now, we're in the development phase for IBM Guardium Data Protection, so I don't have any recommendations about additional features and room for improvement in the solution. We're very excited to work on IBM Guardium Data Protection because we are new to the solution, and we're still exploring product features. We're very excited about integrations and use case creation, and it's only after six to eight months that I'll be able to share my recommendations in terms of additional features the solution should have. We did find some difficulty in deploying IBM Guardium Data Protection here in Pakistan because of the lack of resources."

"The installation should be a bit easier."

"I'd like to them make sure that the data sources can be more easily managed, because some of them are tied to multiple things. You try to remove one and you have to go to all the different spots to remove the associations before you can get rid of it."

"The biggest complaint that I hear from customers and users is that using this solution requires database skills, yet it is a security and monitoring tool."

"Guardium's storage capabilities could use some improvement. I'd also like to have some better integration using digital technology or a connector."

"We've had some issues recently that we're working through, on the agent software that runs on the databases."

"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."

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

"IBM solutions have fair price strategy, and operates on a yearly basis. If it's a SaaS solution, then you can opt for yearly basis."

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

"It's an expensive solution"

"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."

"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."

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

"It is a very costly product."