We performed a comparison between IBM Security Guardium Data Protection and Vormetric Application Crypto Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Imperva, Oracle and others in Database Security."Provides a unified key management system to help simplify encryption key management."
"The ability to collect the data without database administers being able to modify it."
"The product has proven to be flexible"
"Ease of deployment is a valuable feature."
"Encryption is not straightforward, but Guardium made the setup easy for us."
"Setting up Guardium was easy and straightforward."
"Efficiency is key and IBM Guardium provides information in a heartbeat, but protects the data with military grade encryption."
"You could easily throw it onto a VM or add additional hardware. One central manager supports about a hundred managed units, so scalability is excellent."
"Transfer encryption is a great feature of Crypto Suite."
"The backup and recovery is very resource-hungry and requires a huge amount of storage capacity."
"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."
"Can't be used for a NoSQL database, which is limiting."
"An area for improvement would be the user interface - currently, it takes around two to three months to become comfortable using it."
"More predictive, using Watson AI would be good."
"They could enable the out-of-the-box feature to track application user activity."
"More automation, user guides, and tips would make this solution better."
"I would like them to support cloud services."
"Could be more agent-led with options for simplifying implementation."
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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 70 reviews while Vormetric Application Crypto Suite is ranked 7th in Data Masking with 1 review. IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2, while Vormetric Application Crypto Suite 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 Vormetric Application Crypto Suite writes "Very user friendly with good security features including transfer encryption". IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault, Oracle Advanced Security, DataSunrise Database Security and IBM InfoSphere Optim Data Privacy, whereas Vormetric Application Crypto Suite is most compared with Voltage SecureData Enterprise and Protegrity Data Security.
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IBM is reselling Vormetric. IBM Guardium Data Protection includes Vormetric as part of the Data Protection Family.