IBM Security Guardium Data Protection Reviews

I like Guardium's document protection features.

Guardium's storage capabilities could use some improvement. I'd also like to have some better integration using digital technology or a connector.

Guardium is scalable. I've been able to integrate it with other solutions.

I have initiated tickets for various reasons, and IBM support was very good.

Setting up Guardium was easy and straightforward. 

It's an enterprise license.

I rate IBM Guardium nine out of 10. I would absolutely recommend the solution to others.

We are using IBM Guardium Data Protection for activity monitoring, blocking users,  entitlement for knowing the privilege for users, and Guardium data features.

The solution supports a lot of databases.

I have been using IBM Guardium Data Protection for approximately three years.

IBM Guardium Data Protection is stable.

The solution is scalable.

We have approximately six people using the solution.

The technical support has been very good.

IBM Guardium Data Protection's installation is straightforward and takes a few hours.

We have five people that do the implementation and maintenance of the solution.

The price of the solution could be better.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate IBM Guardium Data Protection a nine out of ten.

We are using this solution for a PoC.

IBM Guardium Data Protection is used to create policies, and rules for database access management.

IBM Guardium Data Protection is very good at keeping your database secure.

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

I have been using IBM Guardium Data Protection for four months.

I have not had any issues with the stability.

IBM Guardium Data Protection is a scalable solution.

Currently, as we are conducting PoCs, I am the only user. We created an in-house environment at my office. It is not yet ready to be used at the commercial level.

They have good support when they are opening a case, but when on the Chat, the support is not good.

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

We had IBM appliances, which made it very easy to add. 

We added it to the virtual machine.

The installation was complete in 20 minutes.

I was able to complete the installation myself.

We are working with the trial version.

Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis.

I don't have all of the information regarding the pricing, but my understanding is that it is on the high side. 

IBM, in general, is the best. I would recommend this solution to others.

I am not familiar with other products. I only know IBM Guardium.

I would rate IBM Guardium Data Protection a nine out of ten.

We will primarily use the solution for protecting our database. We're still implementing the product. It's not fully in place just yet.

The solution is easy to use.

We've found the solution to be very stable.

The product has proven to be flexible.

The system, overall, is quite reliable.

The installation should be a bit easier. It's pretty hard to implement right now.

The solution is very expensive. It's expected, as IBM is known to be pricey. It would be nice if they could make it cheaper.

As we are still in the process of implementing the product, it's hard to discuss the features and what might be missing, or could be added. We need more time with the solution to see how it works or what's missing.

We've only been using the solution for a short time by now. We're in the middle of implementing it. It's likely only been a couple of weeks.

We have found the stability to be quite good. It doesn't crash or freeze. There are no bugs or glitches. Its performance has been very good so far.

The solution is very scalable. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so easily.

Only the administrators really deal with the solution at this time. There are four of us.

We did pay for it, therefore we do plan to continue to use it for the foreseeable future.

Our support is through a third-party service, and not directly through IBM itself.

It's been very good so far. They are helpful and responsive.

We did not previously use another solution before choosing this IBM product.

The installation is not straightforward at all. In fact, it is very, very complicated. We found the process to be quite difficult to handle. The hardest part is the tuning of the system, to make it work right.

The product is expensive, which is what you tend to expect from IBM products. It's not cheap.

We may be using version 11 of the product at this time.

We're still in the process of implementing the solution. It's still quite new to us.

Right now, I would rate the solution at a nine out of ten, however, I do need more time to really get to know it to evaluate it properly. I likely need another good six months or so with the solution before I can really rate it effectively.

Currently, my customer has 10 different types of databases for their various banking applications and they intend to deploy IBM Guardium Data Protection to secure their database activities. As soon as it is deployed, we're able to get some insights into what is going on with their databases, to help ensure the integrity of their data in the future.

Two banks are also working on two opportunities with IBM Guardium right now. I believe this is a compliance requirement; nowadays, everyone has to buy database protection. In that case, technically, Oracle will get the added advantage here, because most of the banks are already using Oracle database.

IBM Guardium Data Protection has better integration options than most of the leading competitors on the market, and the price is always better. 

One thing I'm always thinking with regard to Guardium Data Protection is that, when compared to Oracle AVDF, Oracle's often got the upper hand when it comes to the standard features. So I believe that needs to be addressed by IBM. 

Guardium Data Protection is far better in terms of external integration. But in terms of firewall features, like when you're blocking activities, it's as if Oracle AVDF simply has superior features. This is just from third-party observations, but the users of Oracle AVDF are saying that when it comes to the firewall and protection functionality, they're much more inclined to AVDF. Considering the competitive benefits that AVDF is providing compared to Data Protection, I can see that some improvement is required in terms of the firewall-related features.

Another observation I have is that industry resources are not available to handle this product, and I believe that deployment should be much easier than what we have right now. I'm thinking along the lines of some kind of wizard that makes it easier for users to get started right away. For example, to make it so they can do the deployment easier with drag and drop, etc.

It has to be more user-friendly so that anybody can deploy it, anybody can adopt it, and anybody can do the configuration. It has to be built in such a way that even if you are not a product expert, whether from IBM or otherwise, or that if you know only Word, then you can still configure it. So they have to offer that flexibility in the product.

They can hide the complexity by bringing in more GUI elements so that people can more easily get on board. And also they can introduce the knowledge base side by side so that whenever they are using the product, they can quickly check what exactly needs to be configured. You have Redbooks, and Redbooks can help but maybe they can include something extra. While users are installing maybe IBM can put in some guidance, "Okay, if you do this then you configure this and that."

At the same time, the market has lots of Oracle expertise here. But for IBM, there are no local resources available, and we are highly reliant on external resources. So, I would highly recommend that IBM initiates something like a certification campaign for the end user, as well as for the partner. As a partner, we are trying to do our level best, but I believe it would really benefit users for IBM to come up with some pre-certification campaigns like AWS and Azure do, especially in terms of how they promote their products through learning.

What I believe is that, in order to establish the product in the market, IBM has to invest in developing resources. IBM need to strategize in such a way that it's not just selling. IBM has to develop the resources within the industry, so that there's more word of mouth; people are now talking about AVDF, because they only know about AVDF.

I have been working with IBM Guardium Data Protection since last year. 

I can say that it's a stable product. 

Scalability is no problem. 

Support is where the problem is. Since IBM is not in this country, in terms of technical support and also skill sets in the market, there is not much help available to handle Guardium Data Protection. That's where I suggest that IBM should bring marketing people and do some campaigns, like certification campaigns, so that we can have some skilled experts who will develop resources within the industry to promote and support this product.

Since it comes as an appliance, it's kind of plug and play. I can't be too precise, but it only takes around two hours to initialize the virtual appliance.

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

Regarding the pricing, Guardium's price is always better compared to competitors like Oracle. It's not expensive compared to what the leading competitors are providing and on top of that, the integration options with IBM are also better for the price you pay.

I can definitely recommend IBM Guardium and we are going to continue using and promoting it in the future.

I have been working with IBM for approximately 13 years and I've personally found that IBM products are very useful. However, the problem is that IBM's product stack isn't fully present in this country and there is a clear lack of industry resources, so customers remain unaware of their products and they are not adopting products even though this product is very good. Whenever we are talking about the idea of data protection we talk about IBM's solution, Guardium Data Protection.

The main problem is that customers often throw questions like, "What about deployment? What about the support? Are we going to get good support from the local team?" They're not bothered about portal support, they talk about the internal market industry resources. That's where we come in. So even though I am recommending IBM, I know some customers will also like Oracle AVDF.

I would rate IBM Guardium Data Protection an eight out of ten.

One of my customers is a company that manages telecommunications in Mexico. It is a very important company, and they use Guardium for compliance purposes. They use it to comply with PCI, for example.

We have on-premises and cloud deployments. We are currently deploying a customer's environment in Microsoft Azure with SQL Server.

One of our customers uses IBM Security Guardium to discover the production time and to know the transactions about their databases.

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

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.

I have been using this solution for eight or nine years. I have been using Guardium before it was bought by IBM.

Its stability is very good. It is quite available all the time.

Its scalability is perfect. In Mexico, we did most of the implementations for medium and large customers. Our company implemented this solution for banks and telecommunication companies.

IBM's technical support is good, but it can be improved. They can improve the response time for the tickets and the availability for the resolution of the tickets.

It is not complex now. Prior to version 11, in general, the console and the environment were not good. They were bad, but they are good in version 11. The deployment duration varies, and complete integration in Windows can take three weeks to two months.

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.

Oracle Vault, Guardium, and Imperva are the three main solutions that clients consider. Easy deployment and good compatibility with all the solutions that customers have gives Guardium an advantage over other solutions.

We would recommend this solution to others. It is a good solution at a good price, and your data is invaluable.

I would rate IBM Guardium Data Protection a nine out of ten.

We are a solution provider and IBM Guardium is one of the database products that we implement for our clients. Our customers for Guardium are mostly banks and they use it for PCI compliance.

The most valuable features are the reporting and data-level access control.

The interface is easy to use and the learning curve is not very steep.

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.

I have been working with IBM Guardium for about a year and a half.

The stability depends, in part, on how much the client can give the appliance in terms of resources. Overall, I think that it's a really stable appliance, as long as you keep it up to date with all of the patches and updates.

I have done at least one really large-scale deployments and my impression is that it scales really well. 

I have not personally interacted with IBM's technical support. Normally, my seniors in the company would do that.

The initial setup is straightforward. It took about a month for me to get started on it. I used the resources from the security learning academy to begin.

The length of time required for deployment depends on the scale and the internal processes. The largest that I have done took more than a year to complete, although these clients have lots of stuff happening in their environment that had to be taken care of. At times, things like this put us off of our schedule.

We implement and deploy this solution for our clients. People from the client's side are also required. We have the Guardium Administrator, who is usually the project lead. The client will have database administrators, network administrators, IT staff to set up the appliance, and somebody from information security.

My advice to anybody who is implementing this solution is to start small, with a test environment, and then scale it up. This way, if there is a fault at the beginning then it won't be multiplied by the time you have a larger deployment and are fully integrated. In this way, you will see if it meets the requirements.

Overall, this is a wonderful product.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We deal with a range of customers and lately the issue of data privacy and user identity has become very important and many companies are now seriously evaluating tools like Guardium. Companies want to know who is accessing database applications and what they are doing. This product is geared towards medium and large size enterprise companies. We're partners of IBM and I'm a company Vice President. 

The ease of deployment is a key feature of this solution. 

With these solutions, flexibility is always an issue and that applies to Oracle and other similar products. Integreon, which is much smaller in size, is likely to be more flexible than IBM. 

There is a big concern here in India about deploying on cloud so the one thing I would like to see in the next release is a fast option from IBM that is hosted from their India cloud data center.

I've been using this solution for a few months. 

I think this is a stable solution. 

It's easy to scale this solution. 

Technical support is good. 

The initial setup is a little complex and requires some effort. It generally involves some customization and configuring and will require good online support. If you have a fair idea of the customer environment I don't think it takes a long time. There is very little, if any, maintenance required if the solution has been configured properly.

This is one of the core applications for customers and is not something like an endpoint security or perimeter security. It's a specialized use case. This is a textured product and the brand equity of IBM means it's reliable. I have long-term relationships with my clients and wouldn't like to deploy something that gives me problems. This is a good product. 

I would rate this solution an eight out of 10.