We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiDB [EOL] 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."The solution is very good at preventing intrusions. You can definitely rely on this solution to cover your security."
"The biggest thing, for us lately, has been their cloud tools. They're like Intercept X from Sophos, where they'll test for ransomware. Fortinet has the same sort of set up with their cloud devices. So your firewall picks up something suspicious, it sends it up to the cloud for analysis. We also have their in-house antivirus. Having different antivirus checkpoints throughout the network is a good thing as well."
"The dashboard is very simple. It has an easy to use interface."
"We use it to protect files and to prevent users from browsing them while they are being used."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the security aspects."
"It is extremely stable, and can expand as per our needs due to its stability."
"It protects sensitive data and blocks unauthorized access to the data."
"It provides us regulatory compliance proof and evidence for audit."
"It's made database monitoring more visible to the business, creating more conversations about how we should do it better."
"Our ability to see when users are accessing sensitive data."
"Guardium lets you centrally manage aggregators and collectors."
"The most valuable features of this product are activity monitoring on the database servers, discovery capabilities, and vulnerability scanning."
"It tests security to support SOX compliance."
"The most valuable feature of the solution for the customers is the monitoring and full log of the database activity of privileged users."
"The pricing of this solution is a little bit on the high side and can be improved."
"They need to improve the web filter to make it more user-friendly."
"I would like better APIs and integration with other products, like Python and SQL."
"We had some issues trying to fix some critical bugs, such as the SSL encryption."
"Some use case analyses could be improved."
"I'm an old-school guy. I really don't like web GUI interfaces. They're always slow and laggy and their design is restricted, whereas a binary deployment for an admin tool is always faster, easier, more flexible. I would like that kind of functionality from Fortinet."
"The integration part of the present solution is very complex and tedious. Plus it gives a lot of false positives which need to be eradicated over time."
"One of the limitations that everyone who uses Guardium knows is its ability for back-end reporting. The ability to collect it sometimes is easier than the ability to retrieve it, use it, or give a good representation of it for incidence response or questions which come from the different people who want to use the data."
"I would like to be able to upgrade appliances within major versions without needing to rebuild the appliance."
"An area for improvement would be the user interface - currently, it takes around two to three months to become comfortable using it."
"It will not go as fast as you want. "
"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."
"I'd like to see a smoother GUI interface for the CAS agent - CAS does configurations on the database - to interface better with the vulnerability assessments."
"I would like them to support cloud services."
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Fortinet FortiDB [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Database Security while IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 70 reviews. Fortinet FortiDB [EOL] is rated 8.2, while IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiDB [EOL] writes "The cloud tools are able to test for ransomware when the firewall picks up something suspicous". 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". Fortinet FortiDB [EOL] is most compared with , 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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