"The reporting side is also very, very good, especially its flexibility which allows you to tailor the reports to whatever information you want."
"The vulnerability assessment is a valuable feature."
"IBM Guardium Data Protection is very good at keeping your database secure."
"The solution supports a lot of databases."
"One of the most valuable features is the accelerator. It has a predefined report for PCI SOX compliance and other compliances."
"Setting up Guardium was easy and straightforward."
"The product has proven to be flexible"
"Has a great Big Data Intelligence feature."
"The most valuable feature of Protegrity Data Security is the reduction of information being exposed."
"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."
"The analysis part of this product could be improved. It's a very comprehensive product, so the features it has complement customer requirements. But I would like to see more emphasis on analytics, and it would be great if they added machine learning. They already have analysis insights, but a comprehensive analytical feature that's already incorporated into the solution would be very helpful."
"The technical support is very poor."
"More automation, user guides, and tips would make this solution better."
"Personally, I would not recommend this product."
"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."
"An area for improvement would be the user interface - currently, it takes around two to three months to become comfortable using it."
"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."
"Protegrity Data Security could improve by having more integration."
IBM Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 17 reviews while Protegrity Data Security is ranked 5th in Database Security with 1 review. IBM Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.0, while Protegrity Data Security is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Guardium Data Protection writes "Better integration options than competitors, with affordable licensing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Protegrity Data Security writes "Beneficial data security, good support, and straightforward initial setup". IBM Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault, Oracle Advanced Security and jSonar, whereas Protegrity Data Security is most compared with Micro Focus Voltage SecureData Enterprise, Oracle Advanced Security, Vormetric Application Crypto Suite, Informatica Dynamic Data Masking and IBM InfoSphere Optim Data Privacy.
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