IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs Oracle Audit Vault comparison

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

"Has a great Big Data Intelligence feature."

"The most valuable features of this product are activity monitoring on the database servers, discovery capabilities, and vulnerability scanning."

"Audit Process Builder – Workflow generator to enhance audit tasks and compliance workflows."

"It can help with PCI compliance. It includes features like data masking, especially during queries, which supports compliance efforts."

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

"We now have the ability to begin to understand how people, applications, and service accounts are interacting with data to better protect it."

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

"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."

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

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

"The solution is very stable and reliable."

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

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

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

"It needs an integration with Optum."

"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."

"Needs nore cloud support."

"We deal with updates manually on Sundays and sometimes face bugs with the newer versions."

"There could be a feature to integrate and protect multiple databases. The local support services need improvements as well."

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

"I would like to be able to upgrade appliances within major versions without needing to rebuild the appliance."

"The solution could be improved for NoSQL databases."

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

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

"The support could improve."

"Stability could be improved, we have had some challenges"

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

"This solution doesn't audit the network."

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

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

"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."

"It is not an expensive product. We purchase its yearly license."

"The cost depends on the number of databases. You can purchase advanced licenses, but the standard license is calculated based on the number of databases you have to onboard."

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

"It's an expensive solution"

"Reasonable cost but could be lower."

"Guardium has not saved us time or money."

"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."

"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."

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

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