IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs Oracle Audit Vault comparison

IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs. Oracle Audit Vault

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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 December 2024, in the Database Security category, the mindshare of IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is 32.3%, up from 29.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Audit Vault is 14.1%, up from 14.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Database Security

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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

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

"The most valuable feature of the solution for the customers is the monitoring and full log of the database activity of privileged users."

"Supports security initiatives and ensures compliance policies."

"Satisfies audit requests, to give us an idea if anybody is accessing our privileged user IDs without our knowledge."

"It's one of the first to encrypt DB2 databases."

"The front-end works very well."

"The reporting side is also very, very good, especially its flexibility which allows you to tailor the reports to whatever information you want."

"The purpose of EBM Guardium is to monitor database activity and who is accessing it. This is the most valuable feature."

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

"The critical event alerts and reporting features have greatly reduced loss of man hours that would have been spent on going through the whole audit event logs."

"This solution acts as a complete data warehouse for our audit data."

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

"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."

"The feature that I have found most valuable is that it can help us secure our databases."

"Our clients can see all of their past actions or the wrong activity done on the network. We can load the diagnostics for the business."

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Cons

"The solution should allow the data to shift to a centralized repository with elastic servers and big data infrastructure"

"The user interface could be improved and modernized."

"Can't be used for a NoSQL database, which is limiting."

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

"I would like them to support cloud services."

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

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

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"The support could improve."

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

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

"This solution doesn't audit the network."

"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."

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

"We would like to see the ability to administer and manage the solution through Enterprise Manager 13c, and development of the dashboards that are generally missing."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is a very costly product."

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

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

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

"My company purchased IBM Guardium Data Protection in a package, so I'm unable to give its exact licensing cost, but for the package of three IBM solutions, it wasn't very expensive. I'd rate the pricing for all three solutions three out of five. When my team deployed IBM Guardium Data Protection, all features were included."

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

"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."

"It's an expensive solution"

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

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

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

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

30%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

30%

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

11%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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...

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

The pricing is good, and I have no problem with it. Although there is no flexibility to compete with other products, it generally costs between one hundred and three hundred thousand per year depen...

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sample Customers

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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,

IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs. Oracle Audit Vault