We performed a comparison between IBM Security Guardium Data Protection and Oracle Advanced Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Imperva, Oracle and others in Database Security."We now have the ability to begin to understand how people, applications, and service accounts are interacting with data to better protect it."
"Gathering the data works very well. "
"It supports our audit compliance."
"Guardium lets you centrally manage aggregators and collectors."
"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."
"It sends out an immediate alert when there's suspicious activity."
"The most valuable feature is using the capture operation mode “S-TAP/K-TAP agent”, because all activities in the database are captured, including direct access to the database server by privileged users. This is useful because, even if the database server logs were deleted, the Guardium Collector has already stored such data to enable traceability of access."
"Has a great Big Data Intelligence feature."
"The features that are the most used by the customers and partners are, at the moment, for GDPR, so obviously data encryption and data reduction. Our customers also like the partitioning option."
"The most valuable feature is the data encryption option for columns and tables."
"Performance and the ability to use resources could be improved."
"The documentation could be better."
"Needs easier integration with custom applications."
"The ability for Central Managers to talk to one another could be improved. I have 26 Central Managers and 26 silos which are independent."
"Using the data in native Guardium is difficult, at best."
"The one thing that I would like to see improved, but I don't think it's going to be in the next release, is its reporting capabilities. I think that's been offloaded to another third-party product that I think IBM actually endorses for that."
"One of the limitations that everyone who uses Guardium knows is its ability for back-end reporting. The ability to collect it sometimes is easier than the ability to retrieve it, use it, or give a good representation of it for incidence response or questions which come from the different people who want to use the data."
"I would like to see a lot of additional reporting and analytics features. They have basic outlier detection, but I would love to see that go further, and model it after analytics tools like Splunk."
"Having a single command to encrypt a table would be an improvement."
"It is really constrained as an environment because you cannot change something that would be useful. It is a very good product because it is very similar to what you have on-premises. Yes, it is constrained, but it is expected because it is a platform as a service so it has to be constrained."
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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 70 reviews while Oracle Advanced Security is ranked 12th in Endpoint Encryption. IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2, while Oracle Advanced Security 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 Oracle Advanced Security writes "Good support, stable, and offers encryption at both the column and table level". IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault, DataSunrise Database Security, Vormetric Application Crypto Suite and IBM InfoSphere Optim Data Privacy, whereas Oracle Advanced Security is most compared with Microsoft BitLocker, Voltage SecureData Enterprise, Protegrity Data Security and Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting.
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