We performed a comparison between IBM Security Guardium Data Protection and Informatica Persistent Data Masking 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 feature of the solution for the customers is the monitoring and full log of the database activity of privileged users."
"Database logging and audit functions are the most valuable features."
"Our main focus for IBM Guardium is to support security initiatives and compliance policies within our organization. We use the DPD product for monitoring, especially for GDPR, SOX regulations and, of course, the vulnerability assessment that we use to make sure we're keeping up with our patches, making sure things are configured, making sure we're following the best practices."
"It does not require our involvement to run it. It runs in the background and the people that do the reporting do so. The reports go to the directors who are in charge of the various data areas. It's pretty clean. Clearly there is some setup, but after you get it set up it just goes."
"There are different modules but the most valuable ones are firewalling and masking. Additionally, the auditing of the entire database is helpful, which includes all the activity of the database users and administrators. We can monitor everything and log as well."
"The most valuable features are the reporting and data-level access control."
"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."
"IBM Guardium Data Protection has better integration options than most of the leading competitors on the market, and the price is always better."
"Informatica provides a comprehensive solution for on-the-fly or real-time data masking."
"Informatica is user-friendly, stable, and scalable. These three aspects are the most valuable for us. If we can make it work well with the CRM, we can continue or try again this year to complete that part of the project. I am confident that this kind of solution is what we need because we have a third-party resource that works in the development."
"The most valuable feature is data discovery. This is the most exciting feature for all of the banks."
"Informatica Persistent Data Masking can mask production data for different users, ensuring that only authorized individuals can access sensitive information."
"The most valuable features are the structure masking and platform masking."
"They could enable the out-of-the-box feature to track application user activity."
"Guardium's storage capabilities could use some improvement. I'd also like to have some better integration using digital technology or a connector."
"IBM Guardium Data Protection is a mature product. There is a lot of encryption that is not owned by IBM and is done by a third party and is not an integral part of the solution."
"If IBM Guardium Data Protection could find a way to not have a lot of coding and development required to get the solution up and running it would be an advantage. The information of the agent could improve, which is necessary for us to monitor the databases would be a great benefit."
"Sometimes the connectors to the databases need to be manually updated and we have to configure them again, which is something that should be improved."
"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."
"The backup and recovery is very resource-hungry and requires a huge amount of storage capacity."
"The ability for Central Managers to talk to one another could be improved. I have 26 Central Managers and 26 silos which are independent."
"Informatica's support understands the solution, but they lack the experience we need for our use case. That was one thing that we prioritized when we started searching for this kind of solution."
"I have encountered some issues using the substitution, which is one of the techniques of data masking."
"Informatica should simplify the rules for setting classifications and user access management permissions. It's too complex to define, configure, and make work."
"The data discovery isn't that good yet for Salesforce. We have another tool that we use for this. It may be a problem because Salesforce on the cloud."
"Once the data is masked, we won't be able to reverse it back to its original value."
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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 70 reviews while Informatica Persistent Data Masking is ranked 6th in Data Masking with 5 reviews. IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2, while Informatica Persistent Data Masking is rated 7.8. 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 Informatica Persistent Data Masking writes "Enables secure data protection during testing and controlled access to sensitive information". IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault, Oracle Advanced Security, DataSunrise Database Security and Delphix, whereas Informatica Persistent Data Masking is most compared with Delphix, Protegrity Data Security, IBM InfoSphere Optim, Imperva SecureSphere Database Security and Oracle GoldenGate. See our IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs. Informatica Persistent Data Masking report.
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