IBM Security Guardium Data Protection Reviews

The main features are database activity monitoring and firewall feature blocking.

I'm working as a consultant for security products. I'm not a user of this product. Guardium is helping customers to get insights into who is accessing company data, when they are doing it, and from which location.

Guardium can block malicious connections to the databases. For example, if someone is accessing sensitive data in a production database during non-working hours, Guardium can block this connection.

I would like to see a better GUI. IBM is working on GUI improvements with every new release.

I have used this solution for five years.

I did not encounter any issues with stability.

The system is scalable.

Technical support is fast and responsive. The typical response time is less than two hours.

The initial setup is relatively simple. It depends on how many collectors and aggregators are in the setup and the number of databases included in the monitoring solution.

After the initial setup, the level of complexity depends on the customer’s needs.

Ask for a PoC project and then decide.

My primary use of this solution is for database activity monitoring.

The most valuable features of this product are activity monitoring on the database servers, discovery capabilities, and vulnerability scanning.

An area for improvement would be the user interface - currently, it takes around two to three months to become comfortable using it. In the next release, I would like to see more integration with other vault vendors.

I've been using this solution for five years.

The product is stable - during my time using it, I have not had any crash problems with the servers, and I haven't needed to do any restarts.

I haven't had any problems with the global and local support for this product.

The initial setup was basic and easy and didn't take much time.

The cost of this product is reasonable but could be lowered to a more competitive level.

Guardiam's accountability is good - by design, it doesn't give any root privilege to customers, which means we don't have highly important privilege for access to Guardiam. They use only a user level, so kernel-level users are prohibited, which means there aren't any accidental effects from the customer side. I would rate this solution as eight out of ten.