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

The compared IBM and Oracle solutions aren't in the same category. IBM is ranked #1 in DS , with an average rating of 8.6, and holds a 32.4% mindshare in the category. Oracle is ranked #13 in DM , and holds a 4.0% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Security Guardium Data ...

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Database Security (1st)

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7.0

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Data Masking (13th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Database Development and Management Tools solutions, they serve different purposes. IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is designed for Database Security and holds a mindshare of 32.4%, up 29.8% compared to last year.
Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting, on the other hand, focuses on Data Masking, holds 4.0% mindshare, up 2.9% since last year.

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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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reviewer1164618

Program Manager at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Stable with good support but the single-sign on could be improved

Once the data masking was complete, we were not confident that the data was good. A lot of data modeling needed to be added to make sure that the quality of the data was satisfactory. The definition phase was very slow, but that was due to a lack of knowledge that the client had. We were fortunate to locate the correct resources. Finding the correct resources on the market is a problem. We were very fortunate. Some of the issues we were experiencing were with setting up the single sign-on in the beginning. There are not a lot of templates available to use, so we had to start many things from scratch. It wasn't difficult but I would have preferred it. They may have already improved or added more, as it's been a year from when we needed it. Generally speaking, I would like to see more templates available.

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature is using the capture operation mode “S-TAP/K-TAP agent”, because all activities in the database are captured, including direct access to the database server by privileged users. This is useful because, even if the database server logs were deleted, the Guardium Collector has already stored such data to enable traceability of access."

"Provides a unified key management system to help simplify encryption key management."

"It has automated a bunch of manual tasks, giving us insights into activities that we would not otherwise be able to capture."

"The tool helps detect invalid login attempts within a specific time frame."

"It has been very difficult to analyze all the network traffic with something else. Guardium provides that feature, it's heuristic. So we have rule-based algorithms in place to take care of that."

"Ease of deployment is a valuable feature."

"The most valuable feature is the visualization of data and the ability to monitor our databases."

"It provides a comprehensive security for databases, both on-prem and on the cloud. Among the advanced features we use automatic backups, DR."

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

Cons

"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."

"Needs nore cloud support."

"I would like them to support cloud services."

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

"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."

"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."

"An improvement would be to make the pricing relative in terms of regions."

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

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

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution could be better."

"If you are researching this type of solution, work with IBM."

"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."

"Guardium has not saved us time or money."

"It is a very costly product."

"It's an expensive solution"

"Reasonable cost but could be lower."

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Financial Services Firm

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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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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 Data Masking and Subsetting extracts entire copies or subsets of application data from the database, and masks sensitive data so that the data can be safely shared with test, development, and partners.

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