IBM Security Guardium Data Protection Reviews

As a registered IBM Business Partner, our main interaction is to deploy Guardium at client sites.

• Audit Process Builder – Workflow generator to enhance audit tasks and compliance workflows.
• Compliance Quick Start – Quick, GUI, step-by-step guide to automate compliance and give the customer a quick ROI.

Needs easier integration with custom applications.

I would give the product a score of eight out of 10. This is due to its deep level of granularity and guided process/audit workflow generation.

Database encryption.

• Encryption
• Data activity monitoring
• It has a set of modules.
• I compliment with Optum for a data masking solution.

An integration with Optum. Optum is another solution, but it is a segmenting software, portfolio not security. However, I am selling them together as one solution, Guardium and Optum.

I am dependent on my team for support of this product.

My main solution was Micro Focus voltage data encryption solution, but it was too complicated. 

Encryption is not straightforward, but Guardium made the setup easy for us.

Most important criteria when choosing to partner with a company: I started working with IBM only one year back. When I started a partnership with them, IBM had the security portfolio which covered most of the region where my customers were. IBM has a name with the support along the quality of its products.

• Database Activity Monitoring: Fulfills the international standard security requirements, such as PCI DSS
• It is very transparent on all of the query access controls of the monitored databases

According to my client, it fulfills the PCI DSS standard requirements that are implemented in his bank.

The graphics are so lame. I am sure that the latest version of Guardium, Version 10, would have improved it perfectly.

I see that they have improved the chart and diagram in the latest version of Guardium. However, there are some limitations on how the chart displays the data for analytic needs.

I am not sure if Guardium has the dashboard design to see the information much better.

I have used it for three years.

We did encounter stability issues. Do not upgrade directly to the latest fix pack unless people have confirmed that it is stable.

There were no scalability issues.

Technical support is always available for you. I suggest the following:

• Call IBM and make a Severity 2 request instead of Severity 3 request.
• Ask them to provide remote access to your system right away.
• Prepare the log files that they usually request.

They have changed the way of licensing. It is no longer according to your core. It is now based on how many servers you use. The price should be way less expensive.

I mainly use this solution to monitor the activity happening in the database.

The most valuable features are the modules, discovery classification, and vulnerability assessment. The reporting side is also very, very good, especially its flexibility which allows you to tailor the reports to whatever information you want. It also has the advantage of architectural data collection from the database.

An improvement would be to make the pricing relative in terms of regions. In the next release, IBM should incorporate more AI capabilities to better detect vulnerabilities.

I've been using Guardium for four years.

Guardium is a stable system.

You can scale Guardium up and down according to your needs.

IBM's technical support is very good.

Positive

The initial setup will be straightforward for those with technical experience but may be more challenging for less experienced users.

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

I would give Guardium a rating of eight out of ten.

I like Guardium's document protection features.

Guardium's storage capabilities could use some improvement. I'd also like to have some better integration using digital technology or a connector.

Guardium is scalable. I've been able to integrate it with other solutions.

I have initiated tickets for various reasons, and IBM support was very good.

Setting up Guardium was easy and straightforward. 

It's an enterprise license.

I rate IBM Guardium nine out of 10. I would absolutely recommend the solution to others.

We use IBM Guardium Data Protection mostly for data masking and firewalling. We restrict the administrators and other users from altering or deleting anything from the databases.

There are different modules but the most valuable ones are firewalling and masking. Additionally, the auditing of the entire database is helpful, which includes all the activity of the database users and administrators. We can monitor everything and log as well.

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 have used IBM Guardium Data Protection within the last 12 months.

The solution is quite stable compared to the other solutions that we have worked with. However, it requires a lot of development, or it requires a lot of effort to make it deployable in a customer location, which makes it very difficult.

IBM Guardium Data Protection is scalable.

The solution is good and stable but you need some manual efforts in terms of development and programming or coding to get the solution up and running, which does make it a bit challenging if you don't have a large team.

I rate IBM Guardium Data Protection a seven out of ten.

We are using IBM Guardium Data Protection for activity monitoring, blocking users,  entitlement for knowing the privilege for users, and Guardium data features.

The solution supports a lot of databases.

I have been using IBM Guardium Data Protection for approximately three years.

IBM Guardium Data Protection is stable.

The solution is scalable.

We have approximately six people using the solution.

The technical support has been very good.

IBM Guardium Data Protection's installation is straightforward and takes a few hours.

We have five people that do the implementation and maintenance of the solution.

The price of the solution could be better.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate IBM Guardium Data Protection a nine out of ten.

The primary use case is security of our data in the bank.

Performance is very good.

Security. This is the main capability that you have in this solution.

In terms of compliance, we need to track users, database logins, and run inquiries. Guardium stores this log information very well. We don't use it for compliance with industry regulations like SOX, PCI or GDPR.

We have integrated Guardium with our database, SQL server, Hadoop, and Oracle Database. The integration is very simple. We just installed the solution and the rest was very simple.

I believe Guardium save us time and money. Upper management is aware of these savings.

It's simple to use and managing the solution. It's very, very good for security and tracking users and databases in the organization.

Stability is very good. I don’t have downtime with this solution.

We used support to configure Guardium with Hadoop only. The support was good. I did not need to escalate this ticket.

The pricing was for a big package, including all IBM products. As such, it was good value.

I don’t know because I am new in this company. I don’t know the history.

When selecting a vendor, I look at the price and the scope of solution.

My advice is to use this solution. For security and compliance it is very, very good.