IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs McAfee Vulnerability Manager for Databases [EOL] comparison

IBM and McAfee are both solutions in the Database Security category. Additionally, 85% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of McAfee users who would recommend it.

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IBM Security Guardium Data ...

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

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Database Security (1st)

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7.6

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Featured Reviews

Ahmer Faisel Khan

Director | CTO at COMMTEL

Offers mature agents, compliance reporting and reliable database security

The solution should allow the data to shift to a centralized repository with elastic servers and big data infrastructure. If a customer searches for old logs for retention purposes, there are limitations on appliances once they are set with specific hardware, so they can only be changed by uninstalling or reinstalling the hardware. The solution's aggregator feature allows data aggregation, but for instance, if a customer wants a project ready in two years, having an Elasticsearch in DB or the capacity to store huge amounts of data would be beneficial in data investigation or evaluation at an affordable cost. Some AI features should be added to IBM Security Guardium Data Protection. For example, the AI features implemented in the solution can be anomaly detection or suspicious activity identification.

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Wahidur Rahman

Senior Executive Officer at United Commercial Bank Limited

The solution's activity monitoring is valuable, but it should have more integrations and updates overall

Our primary use case for this solution is activity, authentication, and scans for audit purposes and priority assessments The feature I have found most valuable is activity monitoring. McAfee has not had many legacy features. They are not updating their value adjustment.In the next feature, I'd…

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It has automated a bunch of manual tasks, giving us insights into activities that we would not otherwise be able to capture."

"The solution supports a lot of databases."

"The most valuable feature is the visualization of data and the ability to monitor our databases."

"Supports security initiatives and ensures compliance policies."

"Good data encryption and data masking features."

"Being an IBM product it really offers security integration capabilities and robust features. Over the years, it has satisfactory met the requirements of our customers which makes it a very reliable and versatile solution."

"The investment return was good because IBM Security Guardium Data Protection provided significant security and compliance benefits."

"Easy to set up data activity monitoring solution that provides competent technical support. Scalable, stable, and has good performance."

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"The technical support is good; they are knowledgeable."

"The support is very good. They are very quick to respond when we have issues."

"The feature I have found most valuable is activity monitoring."

Cons

"The installation should be a bit easier."

"Needs nore cloud support."

"An improvement would be to make the pricing relative in terms of regions."

"More automation, user guides, and tips would make this solution better."

"It was difficult implementing it, configuring it, getting it up and running and in production. However, since then, I believe it has stabilized."

"Sometimes the performance is not good, and also sometimes we have sudden bugs causing difficulties."

"Right now we're having some issues where it's using a high CPU, we don't know why. So, better testing before the product is ready would help."

"Performance and the ability to use resources could be improved."

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"Technical support could be more responsive."

"The UI needs to be improved."

"In the next feature, I'd like to see more integrations and updates overall, specifically bottom tech."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool is not cheap, but it is not expensive."

"One of the deployments that I know of had three databases, and the yearly fees are approximately $50,000 USD."

"Reasonable cost but could be lower."

"If you are researching this type of solution, work with IBM."

"Guardium is most suitable for large scale enterprises because the pricing model is better if you are implementing a large number of databases."

"It is a very costly product."

"Guardium's pricing is quite high, but it gives good value for money for all sizes of enterprises, especially for partners."

"For IBM Guardium, licensing is very simple and straightforward. There are no issues I can speak of."

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"It's not expensive compared to other products that are available."

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Questions from the Community

How does IBM Guardium Data Protection compare with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security?

IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is a solution for database security from IBM that gives complete visibility, control, and analysis to secure sensitive data and comply with regulations. IBM S...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Guardium Data Protection?

I don't remember the exact prices, but Guardium is an expensive tool because it is targeted towards corporate enterprises.

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What do you like most about IBM Security Guardium Data Protection?

The features I like are the robust policies, which allow us to create customized monitoring based on specific activities.

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Also Known As

InfoSphere Guardium, Guardium, IBM Guardium

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Overview

IBM Security Guardium Data Protection automatically discovers and classifies sensitive data from across the enterprise, providing real-time data activity monitoring and advanced user behavior analytics to help discover unusual activity around sensitive data.

Deploy the solution to help discover regulated data in your data stores and use pre-built templates for regulations such as PCI, SOX, HIPAA, CCPA and many more, to streamline and automate compliance workflows.

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McAfee Vulnerability Manager for Databases automatically discovers databases on your network, determines if the latest patches have been applied, and tests for common weaknesses.

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