IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting comparison

"It's made database monitoring more visible to the business, creating more conversations about how we should do it better."

"Compliance Quick Start – Quick, GUI, step-by-step guide to automate compliance and give the customer a quick ROI."

"The solution supports a lot of databases."

"It protects sensitive data and blocks unauthorized access to the data."

"Our internal audit is keeping an eye out, and making sure that we're in compliance. Having the Guardium solution and its reporting helps us get through that process a lot more quickly and efficiently."

"Guardium lets you centrally manage aggregators and collectors."

"The reporting side is also very, very good, especially its flexibility which allows you to tailor the reports to whatever information you want."

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

"This solution delivers the value that it is supposed to deliver."

"I am struggling getting through to social."

"Personally, I would not recommend this product."

"An improvement would be to make the pricing relative in terms of regions."

"The one thing that I would like to see improved, but I don't think it's going to be in the next release, is its reporting capabilities. I think that's been offloaded to another third-party product that I think IBM actually endorses for that."

"We've had some issues recently that we're working through, on the agent software that runs on the databases."

"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."

"Sometimes the connectors to the databases need to be manually updated and we have to configure them again, which is something that should be improved."

"​Overall testing and quality need improvement. It is fairly buggy at times, so it feels like it could use additional staff on the product, testing and trying it out."

"There are not a lot of templates available to use, so we had to start many things from scratch."

"My company purchased IBM Guardium Data Protection in a package, so I'm unable to give its exact licensing cost, but for the package of three IBM solutions, it wasn't very expensive. I'd rate the pricing for all three solutions three out of five. When my team deployed IBM Guardium Data Protection, all features were included."

"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."

"​If you are researching this type of solution, work with IBM."

"The price of the solution could be better."

"It is a very costly product."

"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."

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