We performed a comparison between IBM Security Guardium Data Protection and Oracle Audit Vault based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Database Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features have been how easy it is to deploy and use, as well as the comprehensive monitoring options. These are a few things that customers like most about this product."
"Compliance Quick Start – Quick, GUI, step-by-step guide to automate compliance and give the customer a quick ROI."
"The product has proven to be flexible"
"It has been very difficult to analyze all the network traffic with something else. Guardium provides that feature, it's heuristic. So we have rule-based algorithms in place to take care of that."
"The vulnerability assessment is a valuable feature."
"It tests security to support SOX compliance."
"he solution offers trouble-free access."
"Easy to set up data activity monitoring solution that provides competent technical support. Scalable, stable, and has good performance."
"All of the other components that make up the infrastructure in the environment including the operating system are also quite valuable."
"Our client was scheduled to take a year and a half to set up compliance, but by deploying this product they were able to do the compliance reports within three months."
"The solution is very stable and reliable."
"This solution acts as a complete data warehouse for our audit data."
"It has reduced the stress of collecting database event logs in silos from each database."
"Oracle Audit Vault has a lot of great features, but what I find most valuable is the database firewall."
"A powerful, flexible solution for database traffic monitoring."
"Our clients can see all of their past actions or the wrong activity done on the network. We can load the diagnostics for the business."
"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."
"They could enable the out-of-the-box feature to track application user activity."
"The deployment is complex and requires expertise to deploy."
"Initial setup is very complex. Once you start interacting with people's databases, they get very hesitant. Then, the amount of social tasks to socialize the solution ensuring people are comfortable with it became a much heavier lift."
"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."
"Needs nore cloud support."
"I would like to be able to upgrade appliances within major versions without needing to rebuild the appliance."
"Right now, we're in the development phase for IBM Guardium Data Protection, so I don't have any recommendations about additional features and room for improvement in the solution. We're very excited to work on IBM Guardium Data Protection because we are new to the solution, and we're still exploring product features. We're very excited about integrations and use case creation, and it's only after six to eight months that I'll be able to share my recommendations in terms of additional features the solution should have. We did find some difficulty in deploying IBM Guardium Data Protection here in Pakistan because of the lack of resources."
"The performance of Oracle Audit Vault could be improved, especially in handling large data collections and generating reports on time."
"Stability could be improved, we have had some challenges"
"One feature that is missing is the ability to have a secret server that is always encrypted."
"We would like to see the ability to administer and manage the solution through Enterprise Manager 13c, and development of the dashboards that are generally missing."
"The support could improve."
"An easy, friendly user interface would be nice to have, since this would enable administrators to identify important events with a prompt response."
"This solution doesn't audit the network."
"The product monitors only the database and not the operating systems."
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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 70 reviews while Oracle Audit Vault is ranked 3rd in Database Security with 28 reviews. IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2, while Oracle Audit Vault 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 Oracle Audit Vault writes "Enhanced interface, agentless, and simple setup". IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Advanced Security, DataSunrise Database Security, Vormetric Application Crypto Suite and IBM InfoSphere Optim Data Privacy, whereas Oracle Audit Vault is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Trustwave DbProtect, DB Networks DBN-6300, DataSunrise Database Security and jSonar. See our IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs. Oracle Audit Vault report.
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