IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs Vormetric Application Crypto Suite comparison

The compared IBM and Thales Cloud Security solutions aren't in the same category. IBM is ranked #1 in DS , with an average rating of 8.6, and holds a 32.3% mindshare in the category. Thales Cloud Security is ranked #7 in DM , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 4.1% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Thales Cloud Security users who would recommend it.

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Executive Summary

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Security Guardium Data ...

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Database Security (1st)

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Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Masking (7th)

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 32.3%, up 29.9% compared to last year.
Vormetric Application Crypto Suite, on the other hand, focuses on Data Masking, holds 4.1% mindshare, down 4.7% since last year.

Database Security

Data Masking

Q&A Highlights

CarlosRibeiro

Diretor Comercial e de Marketing at DKRLI

Jul 07, 2020

IBM Guardium Data Protection vs. Vormetric Application Crypto Suite for a tech services company

I have been working with Guardium for 5 years, but I had not heard of Vormetric. So, I will not be able to help. Something I can report is from the IBM website: " IBM Security Guardium Data Encryption runs on a variety of Microsoft Windows, UNIX, and Linux platforms. It requires prerequisite software available from Vormetric, Inc. Visit the Vormetric website for information. For additional information, refer to the Software requirements section. Vormetric is not affiliated or associated with IBM. Vormetric software products and licenses are subject to change in accordance with the policies and procedures of Vormetric. " Source: https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/2/897/ENUS216-412/index.html&request_locale=en

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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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reviewer2537625

Data Protection at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Useful to encrypt sensitive data or crown jewel data stored in various places within organizations

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. The key management capability supports security protocols by providing an additional layer of security by separating duties. It's more secure to store encryption keys in a separate system like Thales rather than locally. If a database is compromised, the keys in Thales remain protected, making it harder for attackers to access the information.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is very easy to obtain reports and manage the reporting interface."

"I like the reporting mechanism. It's very good."

"It allows us to put in controls to make sure that only the right persons access the proper records in the database."

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

"Gathering the data works very well. "

"The features I like are the robust policies, which allow us to create customized monitoring based on specific activities."

"Good data encryption and data masking features."

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

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

"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."

Cons

"Initially it did not have support external applications like, say, Tableau, ServiceNow, Remedy, and the like. They have started growing into it, but I would like to have more and more integration with outside applications."

"The solution should allow the data to shift to a centralized repository with elastic servers and big data infrastructure"

"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."

"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."

"The main issue I have with IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is the support. It's not good."

"IBM should add more database security features to Guardium. They could add user profiling, anomaly detection, and machine learning. IBM has user profiling, but they need to strengthen it. It should make sense for the users. It should remove most of the false positives."

"We deal with updates manually on Sundays and sometimes face bugs with the newer versions."

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

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

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."

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

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

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

"It's an expensive solution"

"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."

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Answers from the Community

CarlosRibeiro

Diretor Comercial e de Marketing at DKRLI

Jul 7, 2020

IBM Guardium Data Protection vs. Vormetric Application Crypto Suite for a tech services company

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Eric-Tsoi

Works

Jul 7, 2020

IBM is reselling Vormetric. IBM Guardium Data Protection includes Vormetric as part of the Data Protection Family.

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Sidney Monteiro

Information Security Analyst at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Jul 7, 2020

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

30%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

27%

Computer Software Company

20%

Insurance Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

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?

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...

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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 needs improvement with Vormetric Application Crypto Suite?

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

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What is your primary use case for Vormetric Application Crypto Suite?

I use the system to encrypt sensitive data or crown jewel data stored in various places within organizations. For example, we can encrypt databases with it. We store and manage the encryption keys ...

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What advice do you have for others considering Vormetric Application Crypto Suite?

I rate Vormetric Application Crypto Suite an eight out of ten.

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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.

At the core of the Vormetric Application Crypto Suite from Thales is a set of products that streamline development efforts to add encryption, tokenization, masking and other cryptographic functions to applications. The job of the developer is made easy and fast by leveraging sample code and APIs that are best for their environment, while key management functions are kept separate and secure in a FIPS 140-2 hardware or virtual appliance that is operated by IT or SecOps. Securing data at the application, with separation of duties for key management, provides the highest levels of protection and compliance.

The Vormetric Application Crypto Suite also includes applications and utilities that leverage the core components to add security layers to databases and other structured data stores.

Sample Customers

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BD, Delta Dental, CMI

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