IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs Sentrigo Hedgehog [EOL] comparison

"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."

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

"Gathering ​the data works very well. ​"

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

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

"The front-end works very well."

"It can help with PCI compliance. It includes features like data masking, especially during queries, which supports compliance efforts."

"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."

"It has the ability to stop any violation coming through via the database."

"The technical support is very poor."

"The manuals should be clearer. There needs to be an online course or tutorial for faster management training."

"I would like them to support cloud services."

"IBM Guardium Data Protection is a mature product. There is a lot of encryption that is not owned by IBM and is done by a third party and is not an integral part of the solution."

"Using the data in native Guardium is difficult, at best."

"The ability for Central Managers to talk to one another could be improved. I have 26 Central Managers and 26 silos which are independent."

"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."

"The most important requirements for us are integration with new database solutions and the ability to manage things like Jailbreak or something like that. Its reduction feature can also be improved. It has a functionality called reduction, which is like masking data, but it is just a replacement of characters. Sometimes the customer needs more than this. It would be good if it was more advanced or complete. We also have a problem with this solution because the IBM aggregator isn't working very well. IBM has created big data intelligence for Guardium, and occasionally, customers need three or four months of data, but they can't run it from the collectors. It can have a better dashboard and more pre-defined use cases for those customers who don't have any idea about data protection or don't have expert personnel in this area. For example, they can include five use cases for banks and five use cases for retail."

"It needs to detect more attacks and do more profiling of the database to learn its normal behaviors to sense violations."

"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 not an expensive product. We purchase its yearly license."

"It's an expensive solution"

"One of the deployments that I know of had three databases, and the yearly fees are approximately $50,000 USD."

"Guardium has not saved us time or money."

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

"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."

"Guardium's pricing is quite high, but it gives good value for money for all sizes of enterprises, especially for partners."