We performed a comparison between ACF2 and IBM Security Guardium Data Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Imperva, Oracle and others in Database Security."We use this tool to quickly assign privileges to different users as soon as they come in."
"The NOACCESS by default is another very good feature. Also, access rules are straightforward, and easy to understand."
"Logging and monitoring are most valuable. It is for the mainframe environment, and it is at the forefront for security and resilience."
"I love their support. The support is great. They are number one."
"Excellent real-time reporting that saves time and resources."
"Ease of deployment is a valuable feature."
"Has a great Big Data Intelligence feature."
"Guardium does a great job of capturing data and having the ability of trying to pull it out and make sense of it. Using it for business applications is its biggest capability."
"The most valuable feature is the GUI, the interface. It also interfaces well with REST API, if you want to automate some of the commands."
"IBM Guardium Data Protection is very good at keeping your database secure."
"It does not require our involvement to run it. It runs in the background and the people that do the reporting do so. The reports go to the directors who are in charge of the various data areas. It's pretty clean. Clearly there is some setup, but after you get it set up it just goes."
"One of the most valuable features is the accelerator. It has a predefined report for PCI SOX compliance and other compliances."
"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."
"Reporting can sometimes include false positives."
"It needs longer rules. The max rule is 32K."
"They can work on its ability to work in a distributed environment. It's a mainframe product. As many companies move to the cloud, depending on what cloud models they choose, such as a public, hybrid, or private cloud, it should be deployable. I am not sure if it can be deployed on those platforms. It has been there since the '50s or '60s, and it's still scalable. It has survived all these years, and it's scalable to many platforms, but I don't know about the cloud."
"I would like my team and me to be able to use simple browsers, like Chrome, to be able to access mainframe data and provision users using the browser."
"Needs nore cloud support."
"More automation, user guides, and tips would make this solution better."
"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."
"I would like to see AI and machine learning added in the future."
"The documentation could be better."
"I would like to see streamlining of some of the agent features, some of the patches; make it a little bit more user-friendly on the documentation."
"It was difficult implementing it, configuring it, getting it up and running and in production. However, since then, I believe it has stabilized."
"Personally, I would not recommend this product."
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ACF2 is ranked 16th in Database Security while IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 70 reviews. ACF2 is rated 9.0, while IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of ACF2 writes "A reliable, scalable product for security and auditing of our mainframe environment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Security Guardium Data Protection writes "Provides visibility, has a single console that shows all information, and collector-aggregator capabilities". ACF2 is most compared with IBM Resource Access Control Facility, Top Secret and IBM Security zSecure, whereas IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault, Oracle Advanced Security, DataSunrise Database Security and Vormetric Application Crypto Suite.
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