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

"Supports security initiatives and ensures compliance policies."

"It protects sensitive data and blocks unauthorized access to the data."

"It's made database monitoring more visible to the business, creating more conversations about how we should do it better."

"This is a multi-platform solution that consolidates everything and centralizes support for it."

"We are using it to do a lot of data discovery from a data classification for structured data."

"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."

"Security policy enforcement of policy-based encryption and centralized encryption key management allows us to maintain data in a secure environment."

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

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

"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 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."

"The backup and recovery is very resource-hungry and requires a huge amount of storage capacity."

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

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

"Personally, I would not recommend this product."

"One of the limitations that everyone who uses Guardium knows is its ability for back-end reporting. The ability to collect it sometimes is easier than the ability to retrieve it, use it, or give a good representation of it for incidence response or questions which come from the different people who want to use the data."

"It needs an integration with Optum."

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

"The biggest challenge is the cost associated with the product, and the cost of maintaining. Everything is not translated directly to the benefits we see. There are benefits, yes, but if I were writing the check, would I buy Guardium? No."

"The price of the solution could be better."

"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."

"Guardium is most suitable for large scale enterprises because the pricing model is better if you are implementing a large number of databases."

"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."

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

"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."

"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."