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

 

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Security Guardium Data ...
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
77
Ranking in other categories
Database Security (1st)
Oracle Data Masking and Sub...
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
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 31.6%, up 30.3% compared to last year.
Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting, on the other hand, focuses on Data Masking, holds 2.5% mindshare, down 2.9% since last year.
Database Security
Data Masking
 

Featured Reviews

Ahmer Faisel Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers mature agents, compliance reporting and reliable database security
The solution should allow the data to shift to a centralized repository with elastic servers and big data infrastructure. If a customer searches for old logs for retention purposes, there are limitations on appliances once they are set with specific hardware, so they can only be changed by uninstalling or reinstalling the hardware. The solution's aggregator feature allows data aggregation, but for instance, if a customer wants a project ready in two years, having an Elasticsearch in DB or the capacity to store huge amounts of data would be beneficial in data investigation or evaluation at an affordable cost. Some AI features should be added to IBM Security Guardium Data Protection. For example, the AI features implemented in the solution can be anomaly detection or suspicious activity identification.
reviewer1164618 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Easy to set up data activity monitoring solution that provides competent technical support. Scalable, stable, and has good performance."
"The most valuable feature is the GUI, the interface. It also interfaces well with REST API, if you want to automate some of the commands."
"Provides a unified key management system to help simplify encryption key management."
"It provides us regulatory compliance proof and evidence for audit."
"From the perspective of analysis and prevention, this product is pretty accurate."
"Guardium does a great job of capturing data and having the ability of trying to pull it out and make sense of it. Using it for business applications is its biggest capability."
"The purpose of EBM Guardium is to monitor database activity and who is accessing it. This is the most valuable feature."
"Audit Process Builder – Workflow generator to enhance audit tasks and compliance workflows."
"This solution delivers the value that it is supposed to deliver."
 

Cons

"The solution lacks control over database security."
"I am struggling getting through to social."
"Initial setup is very complex. Once you start interacting with people's databases, they get very hesitant. Then, the amount of social tasks to socialize the solution ensuring people are comfortable with it became a much heavier lift."
"It would be helpful, and convenient to improve the Chat support."
"Sometimes the performance is not good, and also sometimes we have sudden bugs causing difficulties."
"Using the data in native Guardium is difficult, at best."
"The deployment is complex and requires expertise to deploy."
"Right now we're having some issues where it's using a high CPU, we don't know why. So, better testing before the product is ready would help."
"There are not a lot of templates available to use, so we had to start many things from scratch."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We haven't talked much about pricing and licencing. But it is not cheap for sure"
"It is not an expensive product. We purchase its yearly license."
"Its cost is good. With the new metric of licensing, such as PDO not being available now, customers are expecting a good price for the solution."
"It is a very costly product."
"For IBM Guardium, licensing is very simple and straightforward. There are no issues I can speak of."
"​If you are researching this type of solution, work with IBM."
"Reasonable cost but could be lower."
"Guardium is most suitable for large scale enterprises because the pricing model is better if you are implementing a large number of databases."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
29%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Insurance Company
7%
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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...
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.
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Also Known As

InfoSphere Guardium, Guardium, IBM Guardium
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