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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 32.4% mindshare in the category. Thales Cloud Security is ranked #7 in DM , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 4.0% 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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100% willing to recommend
 

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Security Guardium Data ...
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
76
Ranking in other categories
Database Security (1st)
Vormetric Application Crypt...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
2
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 32.4%, up 29.8% compared to last year.
Vormetric Application Crypto Suite, on the other hand, focuses on Data Masking, holds 4.0% mindshare, down 5.0% since last year.
Database Security
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Q&A Highlights

CR
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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Featured Reviews

Muzzamil Hussain - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 26, 2024
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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DM
Aug 22, 2024
Useful to encrypt sensitive data or crown jewel data stored in various places within organizations
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 from there, controlling how long to maintain them before rotating or destroying them. It also works…
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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

"IBM Guardium Data Protection is very good at keeping your database secure."
"IBM Guardium Data Protection has better integration options than most of the leading competitors on the market, and the price is always better."
"We have integrated IBM Guardium​ with IBM Watson Curator. They access Curator to identify and correlate other actions the user is doing to determine if this is a legitimate action or not."
"The ability to collect the data without database administers being able to modify it."
"It has been very difficult to analyze all the network traffic with something else. Guardium provides that feature, it's heuristic. So we have rule-based algorithms in place to take care of that."
"The tech support is very knowledgeable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution for the customers is the monitoring and full log of the database activity of privileged users."
"It tests security to support SOX compliance."
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"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."
 

Cons

"Needs easier integration with custom applications."
"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."
"There could be a feature to integrate and protect multiple databases. The local support services need improvements as well."
"The backup and recovery is very resource-hungry and requires a huge amount of storage capacity."
"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."
"It would be helpful, and convenient to improve the Chat support."
"There are features like end-to-end and S-TAP mapping, and the ability to install policies for your configuration builder. They're not there, but we'd like to see them in the next version."
"We have had some issues with patches breaking things unexpectedly in our environments."
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"Could be more agent-led with options for simplifying implementation."
"Some feature sets could be improved, particularly alerting, reporting, and monitoring capabilities."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"For IBM Guardium, licensing is very simple and straightforward. There are no issues I can speak of."
"I would suggest to review the type of data, need for security, and if the organizational structure needs the options IBM Guardium provides."
"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."
"The price is good for the quality of the solution."
"Guardium has not saved us time or money."
"It is not an expensive product. We purchase its yearly license."
"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."
"We haven't talked much about pricing and licencing. But it is not cheap for sure"
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Answers from the Community

CR
Jul 7, 2020
Jul 7, 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 inf...
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ET
Jul 7, 2020
IBM is reselling Vormetric. IBM Guardium Data Protection includes Vormetric as part of the Data Protection Family.
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SM
Jul 7, 2020
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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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
29%
Computer Software Company
12%
Government
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
31%
Computer Software Company
19%
Real Estate/Law Firm
9%
Insurance Company
8%
 

Company Size

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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 do you like most about IBM Guardium Data Protection?
It sends out an immediate alert when there's suspicious activity.
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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 Vormetric Application Crypto Suite?
Transfer encryption is a great feature of Crypto Suite.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Vormetric Application Crypto Suite?
The solution is affordable, including for smaller companies. The cost is approximately $3,000 per license, which is quite reasonable. It's a one-off unlimited license.
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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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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.

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.

 

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