We performed a comparison between IBM Security Guardium Data Protection and jSonar based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Imperva, Oracle and others in Database Security."One of the most valuable features is the accelerator. It has a predefined report for PCI SOX compliance and other compliances."
"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."
"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."
"We have integrated IBM Guardium with IBM Watson Curator. They access Curator to identify and correlate other actions the user is doing to determine if this is a legitimate action or not."
"he solution offers trouble-free access."
"We use IBM Guardium to support security initiatives and combine policies within the organization."
"Efficiency is key and IBM Guardium provides information in a heartbeat, but protects the data with military grade encryption."
"It's allowing us to be more proactive than reactive on alerts and access rights and types of resources that are being hit. Before, there were a lot of different solutions, but this expanded that out and made it a more holistic solution. It provides centralization of monitoring, instead of multiple, disparate applications. It definitely allows more economies of scale, streamlining, less fragmented use."
"It allows us to run models against it and do reports against it without understanding the different database technologies."
"The centralization of the data is probably the most useful feature because we span multiple database technologies. We also find the GBDI portion of it very helpful."
"Using the data in native Guardium is difficult, at best."
"More predictive, using Watson AI would be good."
"I would like to see a lot of additional reporting and analytics features. They have basic outlier detection, but I would love to see that go further, and model it after analytics tools like Splunk."
"Overall testing and quality need improvement. It is fairly buggy at times, so it feels like it could use additional staff on the product, testing and trying it out."
"IBM should add more database security features to Guardium. They could add user profiling, anomaly detection, and machine learning. IBM has user profiling, but they need to strengthen it. It should make sense for the users. It should remove most of the false positives."
"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 have already mentioned to IBM that a primary need is to improve the number of records in the reports above 65,535."
"We've had some issues recently that we're working through, on the agent software that runs on the databases."
"It can be simplified as it is a little complicated."
"It would be better if it were more user-friendly. Right now, it's a little bit of a complicated product to use. Another problem that we have is with encrypted traffic on Oracle. This is because it requires a database outage. That's a pain in the butt because you're monitoring critical systems, and they don't like outages."
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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 70 reviews while jSonar is ranked 7th in Database Security with 2 reviews. IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2, while jSonar is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Security Guardium Data Protection writes "Provides visibility, has a single console that shows all information, and collector-aggregator capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of jSonar writes "Serves as a data lake for database activity and helps to centralize and normalize data". IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault, Oracle Advanced Security, DataSunrise Database Security and Trustwave DbProtect, whereas jSonar is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security and Oracle Audit Vault.
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