IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs Trustwave DbProtect comparison

IBM and Trustwave are both solutions in the Database Security category. IBM is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.6, while Trustwave is ranked #4 with an average rating of 9.0. IBM holds a 32.4% mindshare in DS, compared to Trustwave’s 4.3% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Trustwave users who would recommend it.

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85% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between IBM Security Guardium Data Protection and Trustwave DbProtect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Database Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs. Trustwave DbProtect Report (Updated: October 2024).

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Categories and Ranking

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Ranking in Database Security

1st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Trustwave DbProtect

Ranking in Database Security

4th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Database Security category, the mindshare of IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is 32.4%, up from 29.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Trustwave DbProtect is 4.3%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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Marcelo Raza

Cyber Security Architect at Oakmount

A tool that offers a proper view and division of all databases while also allowing users to do continuous monitoring

I have seen that the tool's installation phase has some problems regarding the versions, specifically the version of SQL. Trustwave DbProtect doesn't accept some versions of SQL. Some credentials when you are installing give some problems, but all of them did pass through the installation phase but gave a certain amount of hard work to be done during the installation phase. The aforementioned area needs to be considered for improvement. The pain points with Trustwave DbProtect were about the installation and problems with the different versions not being accepted. A more compatible version of the product with other databases and operating systems should be possible.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"Compliance Quick Start – Quick, GUI, step-by-step guide to automate compliance and give the customer a quick ROI."

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

"IBM Guardium Data Protection has better integration options than most of the leading competitors on the market, and the price is always better."

"Audit Process Builder – Workflow generator to enhance audit tasks and compliance workflows."

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

"Its ability to find 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."

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

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"Transfer and vulnerability scanning are the most valuable features of this product."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is that you can have a good view which is provided with a proper division of all your databases, which you can see in Trustwave DbProtect."

"This solution helps our clients to monitor their database use, and detect violations of the policy."

Cons

"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."

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

"They could enable the out-of-the-box feature to track application user activity."

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

"If IBM Guardium Data Protection could find a way to not have a lot of coding and development required to get the solution up and running it would be an advantage. The information of the agent could improve, which is necessary for us to monitor the databases would be a great benefit."

"I would like to see a lot of additional reporting and analytics features. They have basic outlier detection, but I would love to see that go further, and model it after analytics tools like Splunk."

"The user interface could be improved and modernized."

"The integration part of the present solution is very complex and tedious. Plus it gives a lot of false positives which need to be eradicated over time."

More IBM Security Guardium Data Protection cons

"The product does not have encryption or data masking."

"We have not been able to integrate this product with a lot of standard incident response solutions, so an open API would help in this regard."

"I have seen that the tool's installation phase has some problems regarding the versions, specifically the version of SQL."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."

"Reasonable cost but could be lower."

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

"Guardium has not saved us time or money."

"IBM Guardium Data Protection charges you based on the number of users, e.g. based on the number of licenses, and it's either on a per-license or a per-data basis."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is low price, and ten is very high price, I rate the solution's pricing a nine out of ten."

"For IBM Guardium, licensing is very simple and straightforward. There are no issues I can speak of."

"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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"The licensing fees, including support, are approximately $5,000 USD per database, per year."

"I rate the pricing a five on a scale from one to ten, where one is the lowest and ten is the highest."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

29%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

14%

Government

10%

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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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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What do you like most about Trustwave DbProtect?

The most valuable feature of the solution is that you can have a good view which is provided with a proper division of all your databases, which you can see in Trustwave DbProtect.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Trustwave DbProtect?

Price-wise, Trustwave DbProtect falls in the mid-range category in Portugal. Many solutions similar to Trustwave DbProtect are expensive in the market. I rate the pricing a five on a scale from one...

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What needs improvement with Trustwave DbProtect?

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Also Known As

InfoSphere Guardium, Guardium, IBM Guardium

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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.

Trustwave DbProtect is a security platform designed for consistent monitoring and management of enterprise databases within the data center.

Built on a centrally managed and distributed architecture, DbProtect uncovers database weaknesses. This includes configuration mistakes, identification and access control issues, missing patches, or any toxic combination of settings that could lead to escalation of privileges attacks, data leakage, denial-of-service (DoS), or unauthorized modification of data held within data stores – both relational databases and big data stores.

Sample Customers

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Pax World Investments, Crest Savings Bank, Magnolia Hotels

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