IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs Vormetric Application Crypto Suite comparison

"It has been very difficult to analyze all the network traffic with something else. Guardium provides that feature, it's heuristic. So we have rule-based algorithms in place to take care of that."

"Has a great Big Data Intelligence feature."

"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."

"Satisfies audit requests, to give us an idea if anybody is accessing our privileged user IDs without our knowledge."

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

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

"The most valuable feature is using the capture operation mode “S-TAP/K-TAP agent”, because all activities in the database are captured, including direct access to the database server by privileged users. This is useful because, even if the database server logs were deleted, the Guardium Collector has already stored such data to enable traceability of access."

"Easy to set up data activity monitoring solution that provides competent technical support. Scalable, stable, and has good performance."

"Transfer encryption is a great feature of Crypto Suite."

"One of the most valuable features is the solution's integration with many leading industry solutions, both on-premises and cloud-based. It has API integration with a large number of technologies."

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

"Since we are resellers we do not have enough information about the technical aspects and the areas of improvement. However, one consistent report that we receive from our customers is that IBM does not offer timely support due to the size of the organisation. It would be great if they could improve their response time."

"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."

"Personally, I would not recommend this product."

"The technical support is very poor."

"The most important requirements for us are integration with new database solutions and the ability to manage things like Jailbreak or something like that. Its reduction feature can also be improved. It has a functionality called reduction, which is like masking data, but it is just a replacement of characters. Sometimes the customer needs more than this. It would be good if it was more advanced or complete. We also have a problem with this solution because the IBM aggregator isn't working very well. IBM has created big data intelligence for Guardium, and occasionally, customers need three or four months of data, but they can't run it from the collectors. It can have a better dashboard and more pre-defined use cases for those customers who don't have any idea about data protection or don't have expert personnel in this area. For example, they can include five use cases for banks and five use cases for retail."

"It needs an integration with Optum."

"Could be more user friendly; deployment is a little complex."

"Some feature sets could be improved, particularly alerting, reporting, and monitoring capabilities."

"Could be more agent-led with options for simplifying implementation."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."