IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs McAfee Vulnerability Manager for Databases [EOL] comparison

IBM and McAfee are both solutions in the Database Security category. Additionally, 85% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of McAfee users who would recommend it.

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IBM Security Guardium Data ...

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

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Database Security (1st)

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Average Rating

7.6

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Ahmer Faisel Khan

Director | CTO at COMMTEL

Offers mature agents, compliance reporting and reliable database security

The solution should allow the data to shift to a centralized repository with elastic servers and big data infrastructure. If a customer searches for old logs for retention purposes, there are limitations on appliances once they are set with specific hardware, so they can only be changed by uninstalling or reinstalling the hardware. The solution's aggregator feature allows data aggregation, but for instance, if a customer wants a project ready in two years, having an Elasticsearch in DB or the capacity to store huge amounts of data would be beneficial in data investigation or evaluation at an affordable cost. Some AI features should be added to IBM Security Guardium Data Protection. For example, the AI features implemented in the solution can be anomaly detection or suspicious activity identification.

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Wahidur Rahman

Senior Executive Officer at United Commercial Bank Limited

The solution's activity monitoring is valuable, but it should have more integrations and updates overall

Our primary use case for this solution is activity, authentication, and scans for audit purposes and priority assessments The feature I have found most valuable is activity monitoring. McAfee has not had many legacy features. They are not updating their value adjustment.In the next feature, I'd…

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

Pros

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

"The solution supports a lot of databases."

"The most valuable feature for me, in my role as systems DBA, is the expediting of internal and external audits."

"It's one of the first to encrypt DB2 databases."

"Has a great Big Data Intelligence feature."

"The most valuable feature is the visualization of data and the ability to monitor our databases."

"The product has proven to be flexible"

"Supports security initiatives and ensures compliance policies."

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"The support is very good. They are very quick to respond when we have issues."

"The feature I have found most valuable is activity monitoring."

"The technical support is good; they are knowledgeable."

Cons

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

"I would like to see IBM Guardium have other encryption algorithms employed."

"More automation, user guides, and tips would make this solution better."

"Needs nore cloud support."

"I'd like to see a smoother GUI interface for the CAS agent - CAS does configurations on the database - to interface better with the vulnerability assessments."

"The biggest complaint that I hear from customers and users is that using this solution requires database skills, yet it is a security and monitoring tool."

"The technical support is very poor."

"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."

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"The UI needs to be improved."

"Technical support could be more responsive."

"In the next feature, I'd like to see more integrations and updates overall, specifically bottom tech."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"Its cost is good. With the new metric of licensing, such as PDO not being available now, customers are expecting a good price for the solution."

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

"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."

"Guardium has not saved us time or money."

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

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

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"It's not expensive compared to other products that are available."

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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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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.

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McAfee Vulnerability Manager for Databases automatically discovers databases on your network, determines if the latest patches have been applied, and tests for common weaknesses.

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