IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs Sentrigo Hedgehog [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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100% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Security Guardium Data ...

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

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Database Security (1st)

Sentrigo Hedgehog [EOL]

Average Rating

7.0

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Jared Ochieng

Information Technology Security Specialist at infoark

Used for monitoring database activity and tracking databases

The response time could be improved. Navigating support for the solution can be challenging, especially when finding the right contact for specialized issues. Improvements could make raising tickets and identifying the correct support channels easier. While general support information is provided, specialized support may require contacting different teams. We guide our clients through this process to ensure they know where to turn for various needs. Typically, we are the first point of contact for any issues, big or small, and then direct them to the appropriate resources. The quality of technical support largely depends on the expertise of the partner who implemented the solution. If you have a partner who is well-versed in IBM, the technical support is usually excellent. If not, support might be less reliable.

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Roi Nahari

CTO- Consulting Services at 2bsecure

It has the ability to stop any violation coming through via the database, but it should be able to detect more attacks.

Database security Its ability to stop any violation coming through via the database. The database's ability to see all the traffic going through to it. Sentrigo needs to become more advanced like its competitors, Imperva or IBM. It needs to detect more attacks and do more profiling of the…

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Pros

"Accelerators is one of the big functions they have out there. It gives you canned reports that you don't have to make yourself, they're out there by being part of the patch. You just have to fill your information in to some of the already built groups, for your environment, and it automates a lot of that. That has definitely helped improve things."

"The solution has definitely saved us time, because if you want to monitor this kind of vast environment of different products, it's going to take a lot of time. Let's say one database server has 100 database instances running on it; I don't need to install 100 data instances, I just need to install on the one database server and that will cover all of my instances on that particular database."

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

"Our main focus for IBM Guardium is to support security initiatives and compliance policies within our organization. We use the DPD product for monitoring, especially for GDPR, SOX regulations and, of course, the vulnerability assessment that we use to make sure we're keeping up with our patches, making sure things are configured, making sure we're following the best practices."

"It's allowing us to be more proactive than reactive on alerts and access rights and types of resources that are being hit. Before, there were a lot of different solutions, but this expanded that out and made it a more holistic solution. It provides centralization of monitoring, instead of multiple, disparate applications. It definitely allows more economies of scale, streamlining, less fragmented use."

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

"Audit Process Builder – Workflow generator to enhance audit tasks and compliance workflows."

"The features I like are the robust policies, which allow us to create customized monitoring based on specific activities."

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"It has the ability to stop any violation coming through via the database."

Cons

"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."

"It would be helpful, and convenient to improve the Chat support."

"The price of this solution is quite high for smaller organizations, so they should release a version that is affordable for small and medium-sized businesses."

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

"I would like to see a lot of additional reporting and analytics features. They have basic outlier detection, but I would love to see that go further, and model it after analytics tools like Splunk."

"We deal with updates manually on Sundays and sometimes face bugs with the newer versions."

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

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"It needs to detect more attacks and do more profiling of the database to learn its normal behaviors to sense violations."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product's pricing is reasonable and affordable. It is in the moderate range."

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

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

"It is a very costly product."

"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."

"Guardium has not saved us time or money."

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

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

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Financial Services Firm

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Small Business	28
Midsize Enterprise	14
Large Enterprise	45

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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?

I don't remember the exact prices, but Guardium is an expensive tool because it is targeted towards corporate enterprises.

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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 database security offers real-time protection for business-critical databases from all types of threats: external, internal, and even intra-database exploits. This software-based offering provides robust security, streamlined database security management, and continuous compliance without requiring architecture changes, costly hardware, or downtime.

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Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC)

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