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."The possible number of databases and database servers which can be monitored by Guardium is high. For me, this is a differentiator of IBM."
"Easy to set up data activity monitoring solution that provides competent technical support. Scalable, stable, and has good performance."
"This is a multi-platform solution that consolidates everything and centralizes support for it."
"It supports our audit compliance."
"The solution supports a lot of databases."
"The front-end works very well."
"We are using it to do a lot of data discovery from a data classification for structured data."
"Efficiency is key and IBM Guardium provides information in a heartbeat, but protects the data with military grade encryption."
"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."
"The deployment is complex and requires expertise to deploy."
"There could be a feature to integrate and protect multiple databases. The local support services need improvements as well."
"An area for improvement would be the user interface - currently, it takes around two to three months to become comfortable using it."
"I would like to see streamlining of some of the agent features, some of the patches; make it a little bit more user-friendly on the documentation."
"I have already mentioned to IBM that a primary need is to improve the number of records in the reports above 65,535."
"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."
"It needs an integration with Optum."
"I would like to see IBM Guardium have other encryption algorithms employed."
"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."
"It can be simplified as it is a little complicated."
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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 70 reviews while jSonar is ranked 6th 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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