IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs Vormetric Application Crypto Suite comparison

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

"We use IBM Guardium to support security initiatives and combine policies within the organization."

"The most valuable features have been how easy it is to deploy and use, as well as the comprehensive monitoring options. These are a few things that customers like most about this product."

"Good data encryption and data masking features."

"The product has proven to be flexible"

"The possible number of databases and database servers which can be monitored by Guardium is high. For me, this is a differentiator of IBM."

"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."

"The purpose of EBM Guardium is to monitor database activity and who is accessing it. This is the most valuable feature."

"One of the most valuable features is the solution's integration with many leading industry solutions, both on-premises and cloud-based. It has API integration with a large number of technologies."

"Transfer encryption is a great feature of Crypto Suite."

"Performance and the ability to use resources could be improved."

"Needs easier integration with custom applications."

"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."

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

"Flexibility could be improved."

"We've had some issues recently that we're working through, on the agent software that runs on the databases."

"The one thing that I would like to see improved, but I don't think it's going to be in the next release, is its reporting capabilities. I think that's been offloaded to another third-party product that I think IBM actually endorses for that."

"Right now, we're in the development phase for IBM Guardium Data Protection, so I don't have any recommendations about additional features and room for improvement in the solution. We're very excited to work on IBM Guardium Data Protection because we are new to the solution, and we're still exploring product features. We're very excited about integrations and use case creation, and it's only after six to eight months that I'll be able to share my recommendations in terms of additional features the solution should have. We did find some difficulty in deploying IBM Guardium Data Protection here in Pakistan because of the lack of resources."

"Some feature sets could be improved, particularly alerting, reporting, and monitoring capabilities."

"Could be more agent-led with options for simplifying implementation."

"IBM solutions have fair price strategy, and operates on a yearly basis. If it's a SaaS solution, then you can opt for yearly basis."

"The tool is not cheap, but it is not expensive."

"We haven't talked much about pricing and licencing. But it is not cheap for sure"

"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."

"Guardium won mostly because of our scope and scale. It was able to perform at the scale that we wanted to use it. ​"

"My company purchased IBM Guardium Data Protection in a package, so I'm unable to give its exact licensing cost, but for the package of three IBM solutions, it wasn't very expensive. I'd rate the pricing for all three solutions three out of five. When my team deployed IBM Guardium Data Protection, all features were included."

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