IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs Oracle Advanced Security comparison

"One of the most valuable features is the accelerator. It has a predefined report for PCI SOX compliance and other compliances."

"The product has proven to be flexible"

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

"The purpose of EBM Guardium is to monitor database activity and who is accessing it. This is the most valuable feature."

"This is a multi-platform solution that consolidates everything and centralizes support for it."

"We also use IBM Guardium to support security initiatives and compliance policies. For example, our audit area can verify if someone has access to information that they shouldn't have, for their regular job functions."

"The front-end works very well."

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

"The features that are the most used by the customers and partners are, at the moment, for GDPR, so obviously data encryption and data reduction. Our customers also like the partitioning option."

"The most valuable feature is the data encryption option for columns and tables."

"Sometimes the performance is not good, and also sometimes we have sudden bugs causing difficulties."

"An area for improvement would be the user interface - currently, it takes around two to three months to become comfortable using it."

"IBM Guardium Data Protection is a mature product. There is a lot of encryption that is not owned by IBM and is done by a third party and is not an integral part of the solution."

"I have already mentioned to IBM that a primary need is to improve the number of records in the reports above 65,535."

"One of the limitations that everyone who uses Guardium knows is its ability for back-end reporting. The ability to collect it sometimes is easier than the ability to retrieve it, use it, or give a good representation of it for incidence response or questions which come from the different people who want to use the data."

"The manuals should be clearer. There needs to be an online course or tutorial for faster management training."

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

"More predictive, using Watson AI would be good."

"It is really constrained as an environment because you cannot change something that would be useful. It is a very good product because it is very similar to what you have on-premises. Yes, it is constrained, but it is expected because it is a platform as a service so it has to be constrained."

"Having a single command to encrypt a table would be an improvement."

"The cost depends on the number of databases. You can purchase advanced licenses, but the standard license is calculated based on the number of databases you have to onboard."

"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."

"We haven't talked much about pricing and licencing. But it is not cheap for sure"

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

"IBM solutions have fair price strategy, and operates on a yearly basis. If it's a SaaS solution, then you can opt for yearly basis."

"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."

"IBM Guardium Data Protection charges you based on the number of users, e.g. based on the number of licenses, and it's either on a per-license or a per-data basis."

"Guardium has not saved us time or money."