Imperva SecureSphere Database Security vs McAfee Vulnerability Manager for Databases [EOL] comparison

Imperva and McAfee are both solutions in the Database Security category. Additionally, 92% of Imperva 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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Imperva SecureSphere Databa...

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

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Database Security (2nd)

McAfee Vulnerability Manage...

Average Rating

7.6

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Featured Reviews

Andrew_Kampolo

Senior Manager at Zamtel (Zambia Telecommunications Company Limited)

The fine-grained auditing available on the platform makes life easier and helps explain anything happening in your database

Imperva's most valuable features are ease of use and log correlation. I also like the ability to trace activity from the host machine to the server access, the user details, and the exact query that they executed. If a database administrator or application process executes a query on the database, people know exactly what was executed, including all the variables. For example, it will tell you how many rows they were trying to select on which table, and you get the OS information, network details, IPs, and the user. That fine-grained auditing available on the platform makes life easier and helps explain anything happening in your database.

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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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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I like Imperva SecureSphere platform forms. Imperva SecureSphere is the foundation for SecureSphere data, file and web application solutions."

"As we are very sensitive to financial impacts, this product provides great protection for our organization."

"It is very effective, and we are using four main features. The first feature is cluster management, which allows me to redirect an agent to another gateway if one goes down."

"The functionality is very useable and easy to understand."

"Imperva's most valuable features are ease of use and log correlation. I also like the ability to trace activity from the host machine to the server access, the user details, and the exact query that they executed. If a database administrator or application process executes a query on the database, people know exactly what was executed, including all the variables."

"Database reporting features are valuable to us."

"The company focuses on and has a passion for security."

"The integration is great."

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

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

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

Cons

"Some cloud versions are not supported by the agent."

"It would be more efficient if we could manage the consoles of management servers from a single location"

"I'd like to see some sort of solution for storage."

"Performance can be slow under heavy loads, but this should be adjusted by scaling."

"I have worked with IBM before, and I prefer its ease of deployment and management. Imperva SecureSphere Database Security has tricky deployment, whereas IBM's deployment is straightforward because of the UI."

"Overall, it's a very good product but they could do with some modifications log-wise."

"The agent does not monitor databases in the containers."

"The only challenge I see is that SecureSphere is deployed on servers or databases which are held on physical infrastructure. However, there are databases which are hosted on cloud platforms and Imperva has a separate tool altogether for that, not SecureSphere."

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"Technical support could be more responsive."

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

"The UI needs to be improved."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is quite expensive. We wanted it in my former organization, but the price was very high. So, we couldn't purchase it. I moved to a different organization, and this organization has purchased it."

"The pricing over-all depends on the entry level. For example, if support and maintenance are about $20,000 - $25,000, the initial cost can be five times more. It is less expensive for the company to maintain the client than to make the deployment."

"There is an annual licensing fee for upgrading the device."

"Licensing fees are on a yearly basis, and it is a good value for the money."

"They have introduced new price models, which makes the product more affordable now."

"The setup and license are quite expensive."

"The price is very high but compared to the price of the overall solution, then I think it's a good deal because the solution itself is great."

"We have all the licenses, which we pay for annually. The price is a little high, but the product is good."

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

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Financial Services Firm

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Overview

Imperva SecureSphere Database Security:

Audits all access to sensitive data.
Alerts or blocks database attacks and unauthorized activities, in real time.
Detects and virtually patches database vulnerabilities.
Identifies excessive user rights and dormant users, and enables a complete rights review cycle.
Accelerates incident response and forensics investigations with advanced analytics.

Imperva

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

McAfee

Sample Customers

BlueCross BlueShield, eHarmony, EMF Broadcasting, GE Healthcare, Metro Bank, The Motley Fool, Siemens

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