IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs Oracle Audit Vault comparison

"Being an IBM product it really offers security integration capabilities and robust features. Over the years, it has satisfactory met the requirements of our customers which makes it a very reliable and versatile solution."

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

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

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

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

"Its ability to find data."

"The tech support is very knowledgeable."

"Accelerators is one of the big functions they have out there. It gives you canned reports that you don't have to make yourself, they're out there by being part of the patch. You just have to fill your information in to some of the already built groups, for your environment, and it automates a lot of that. That has definitely helped improve things."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"The solution is very stable and reliable."

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

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

"I'd like to see a smoother GUI interface for the CAS agent - CAS does configurations on the database - to interface better with the vulnerability assessments."

"Deployment process is very complicated as you need to now all advanced parameters. Almost not possible to figure out for yourself."

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

"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."

"Flexibility could be improved."

"Initially it did not have support external applications like, say, Tableau, ServiceNow, Remedy, and the like. They have started growing into it, but I would like to have more and more integration with outside applications."

"Many clients inquire if the solution includes a database firewall, which it doesn’t."

"More automation, user guides, and tips would make this solution better."

"The support could improve."

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

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

"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."

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

"This solution doesn't audit the network."

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

"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."

"It's an expensive solution"

"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."

"It is a very costly product."

"The price of the solution could be better."

"The price is good for the quality of the solution."

"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."

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

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

"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."