IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting comparison

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

"I rate Guardium 10 out of 10 for data activity monitoring and nine for vulnerability assessment. It's easy to implement and does its job. But I would rate it seven out of 10 in terms of advanced features."

"It provides us regulatory compliance proof and evidence for audit."

"Gathering ​the data works very well. ​"

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

"We have integrated IBM Guardium​ with IBM Watson Curator. They access Curator to identify and correlate other actions the user is doing to determine if this is a legitimate action or not."

"We appreciate its ease of implementation and the local support available for the product."

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

"This solution delivers the value that it is supposed to deliver."

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

"Performance and the ability to use resources could be improved."

"The deployment is complex and requires expertise to deploy."

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

"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."

"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."

"I would like to see IBM Guardium have other encryption algorithms employed."

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

"There are not a lot of templates available to use, so we had to start many things from scratch."

"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."

"The price of the solution could be better."

"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."

"Reasonable cost but could be lower."

"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."

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

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

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