IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs Oracle Audit Vault comparison

IBM and Oracle are both solutions in the Database Security category. IBM is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.6, while Oracle is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.0. IBM holds a 32.4% mindshare in DS, compared to Oracle’s 14.0% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

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85% willing to recommend

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90% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between IBM Security Guardium Data Protection and Oracle Audit Vault based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Database Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs. Oracle Audit Vault Report (Updated: October 2024).

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Security Guardium Data ...

Ranking in Database Security

1st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Oracle Audit Vault

Ranking in Database Security

3rd

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Database Security category, the mindshare of IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is 32.4%, up from 29.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Audit Vault is 14.0%, down from 14.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Muzzamil Hussain

Assistant Vice President at National Bank of Pakistan

Offers vulnerability analyzer with easily integration with other IBM solutions

We are currently facing a challenge because it does not offer data encryption by default, only data masking. When we decide to implement data encryption, we must purchase an additional add-on, which incurs extra costs. Data encryption and data masking often work together in organizations. Therefore, using different products for these functions, such as Oracle for data management and a plugin for data masking, creates a burden on our systems. We have to install and manage multiple agents, like Oracle's light agents and IBM's agents. IBM should include data encryption in its standard package. This would streamline operations and reduce the complexity and cost of managing separate data protection solutions. Currently, it supports cross-platform integration but does not support integration with flat file databases. IBM Guardium integrates well with international databases like MySQL and Oracle, making it easy to use with these systems. We need to develop a plugin to integrate flat file databases with Guardium.

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Yves Moro

Oracle Database Administrator at SOCITECH S.A.

Provides good security, and is helpful for auditing the data and seeing what's happening

Currently, you need two servers: one for Audit Vault and one for the firewall. If they can combine them into one server, it will be great because it is costly to have two servers. It will also make its installation easier. I have heard that in the new version, there will be only one server for both. I use it only for security purposes, and they can continue to improve it with more security tools and features. It should be powerful like FortiGate. When it becomes powerful like FortiGate, people will only go for this solution for their infrastructure. Their support could be faster.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"There are different modules but the most valuable ones are firewalling and masking. Additionally, the auditing of the entire database is helpful, which includes all the activity of the database users and administrators. We can monitor everything and log as well."

"I like the reporting mechanism. It's very good."

"Supports security initiatives and ensures compliance policies."

"The ability to collect the data without database administers being able to modify it."

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

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

"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 solution supports a lot of databases."

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"It has provided us with a unique opportunity to automate risk discovery."

"The most valuable feature of Oracle Audit Vault is that it is agentless and enhanced user interface."

"It is a good product for controlling all databases. It is helpful for auditing the data. When people are doing any actions on the databases, they are recorded automatically in the vault. You can work on the collected data to find out exactly what is happening on a database. You can implement database encryption on the databases to control people's access to the database content, such as rows and tables."

"All of the other components that make up the infrastructure in the environment including the operating system are also quite valuable."

"Technical support is perfect."

"It has reduced the stress of collecting database event logs in silos from each database."

"Oracle Audit Vault has a lot of great features, but what I find most valuable is the database firewall."

"A powerful, flexible solution for database traffic monitoring."

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Cons

"It was difficult implementing it, configuring it, getting it up and running and in production. However, since then, I believe it has stabilized."

"Flexibility could be improved."

"The analysis part of this product could be improved. It's a very comprehensive product, so the features it has complement customer requirements. But I would like to see more emphasis on analytics, and it would be great if they added machine learning. They already have analysis insights, but a comprehensive analytical feature that's already incorporated into the solution would be very helpful."

"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 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."

"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."

"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."

"Needs nore cloud support."

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"The product monitors only the database and not the operating systems."

"An easy, friendly user interface would be nice to have, since this would enable administrators to identify important events with a prompt response."

"The performance of Oracle Audit Vault could be improved, especially in handling large data collections and generating reports on time."

"Customized reporting is something that we are struggling with, and it is quite tough for us."

"Some of our customers were asking about latency when the application wants to get to the database."

"They should simplify the integration and work with different vendors and mechanisms."

"I hear from many people that say IBM Guardian is better than Oracle Audit Vault when it comes to performance. IBM Guardian works transparently in the database, but Oracle Audit Vault consumes some ratios on the server."

"One feature that is missing is the ability to have a secret server that is always encrypted."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

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

"Guardium has not saved us time or money."

"The tool is not cheap, but it is not expensive."

"The price of the solution could be better."

"One of the deployments that I know of had three databases, and the yearly fees are approximately $50,000 USD."

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

"For IBM Guardium, licensing is very simple and straightforward. There are no issues I can speak of."

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"Oracle can be an expensive solution depending on the options and user needs."

"This solution is definitely not expensive, and it is a small fraction of the overall database licensing costs."

"The licensing cost is about $360,000, annually."

"For the bank, the license was $48,000 last time. That was the licensing for the bank on just one license."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

29%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

30%

Computer Software Company

14%

Government

11%

Manufacturing Company

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Questions from the Community

How does IBM Guardium Data Protection compare with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security?

IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is a solution for database security from IBM that gives complete visibility, control, and analysis to secure sensitive data and comply with regulations. IBM S...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Guardium Data Protection?

I can't provide details on the pricing because I don't deal with the billing. We have a big package with QRadar, Guardium, and other tools.

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What do you like most about IBM Security Guardium Data Protection?

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

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What do you like most about Oracle Audit Vault?

Oracle Audit Vault has a lot of great features, but what I find most valuable is the database firewall.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Audit Vault?

I would rate the costliness of Oracle Audit Vault as a seven out of ten. It is a bit expensive.

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What needs improvement with Oracle Audit Vault?

The performance of Oracle Audit Vault could be improved, especially in handling large data collections and generating reports on time. Additionally, the efficiency of queries for retrieving informa...

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Also Known As

InfoSphere Guardium, Guardium, IBM Guardium

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Overview

IBM Security Guardium Data Protection automatically discovers and classifies sensitive data from across the enterprise, providing real-time data activity monitoring and advanced user behavior analytics to help discover unusual activity around sensitive data.

Deploy the solution to help discover regulated data in your data stores and use pre-built templates for regulations such as PCI, SOX, HIPAA, CCPA and many more, to streamline and automate compliance workflows.

Oracle Audit Vault monitors Oracle and non-Oracle database traffic to detect and block threats, as well as improves compliance reporting by consolidating audit data from databases, operating systems, directories, and other sources.

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Abu Dhabi Department of Finance, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health, Educational Testing Service, Ryohin Keikaku Co. Ltd., SPC Brasil, REDISA, Qatar Olympic Committee, Seneca College, Hunan Social Insurance Management and Service Bureau,

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