IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs Oracle Advanced Security comparison

"Encryption is not straightforward, but Guardium made the setup easy for us."

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

"It allows us to put in controls to make sure that only the right persons access the proper records in the database."

"The most valuable feature is the GUI, the interface. It also interfaces well with REST API, if you want to automate some of the commands."

"The product has proven to be flexible"

"Satisfies audit requests, to give us an idea if anybody is accessing our privileged user IDs without our knowledge."

"The maturity of the agent is the most valuable feature of the solution"

"he solution offers trouble-free access."

"The most valuable feature is the data encryption option for columns and tables."

"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."

"Can't be used for a NoSQL database, which is limiting."

"Since we are resellers we do not have enough information about the technical aspects and the areas of improvement. However, one consistent report that we receive from our customers is that IBM does not offer timely support due to the size of the organisation. It would be great if they could improve their response time."

"The most important requirements for us are integration with new database solutions and the ability to manage things like Jailbreak or something like that. Its reduction feature can also be improved. It has a functionality called reduction, which is like masking data, but it is just a replacement of characters. Sometimes the customer needs more than this. It would be good if it was more advanced or complete. We also have a problem with this solution because the IBM aggregator isn't working very well. IBM has created big data intelligence for Guardium, and occasionally, customers need three or four months of data, but they can't run it from the collectors. It can have a better dashboard and more pre-defined use cases for those customers who don't have any idea about data protection or don't have expert personnel in this area. For example, they can include five use cases for banks and five use cases for retail."

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

"The integration part of the present solution is very complex and tedious. Plus it gives a lot of false positives which need to be eradicated over time."

"Many clients inquire if the solution includes a database firewall, which it doesn’t."

"I would like to see IBM Guardium have other encryption algorithms employed."

"The documentation could be better."

"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."

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

"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."

"IBM Guardium Data Protection charges you based on the number of users, e.g. based on the number of licenses, and it's either on a per-license or a per-data basis."

"Its cost is good. With the new metric of licensing, such as PDO not being available now, customers are expecting a good price for the solution."

"It is not an expensive product. We purchase its yearly license."

"Guardium has not saved us time or money."

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

"My company purchased IBM Guardium Data Protection in a package, so I'm unable to give its exact licensing cost, but for the package of three IBM solutions, it wasn't very expensive. I'd rate the pricing for all three solutions three out of five. When my team deployed IBM Guardium Data Protection, all features were included."