IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs Sentrigo Hedgehog [EOL] comparison

"Our ability to see when users are accessing sensitive data."

"It's allowing us to be more proactive than reactive on alerts and access rights and types of resources that are being hit. Before, there were a lot of different solutions, but this expanded that out and made it a more holistic solution. It provides centralization of monitoring, instead of multiple, disparate applications. It definitely allows more economies of scale, streamlining, less fragmented use."

"IBM Guardium Data Protection is very good at keeping your database secure."

"I like the reporting mechanism. It's very good."

"We also use IBM Guardium to support security initiatives and compliance policies. For example, our audit area can verify if someone has access to information that they shouldn't have, for their regular job functions."

"It can help with PCI compliance. It includes features like data masking, especially during queries, which supports compliance efforts."

"The product has proven to be flexible"

"Gathering ​the data works very well. ​"

"It has the ability to stop any violation coming through via the database."

"There could be a feature to integrate and protect multiple databases. The local support services need improvements as well."

"The solution could be improved for NoSQL databases."

"The ability for Central Managers to talk to one another could be improved. I have 26 Central Managers and 26 silos which are independent."

"The user interface could be improved and modernized."

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

"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."

"The installation should be a bit easier."

"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."

"It needs to detect more attacks and do more profiling of the database to learn its normal behaviors to sense violations."

"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."

"The product's pricing is reasonable and affordable. It is in the moderate range."

"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."

"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."

"We haven't talked much about pricing and licencing. But it is not cheap for sure"

"The price of Guardium is higher than the main competitor, Imperva. In addition, it's complex as the calculation of the licensing is done by Processor Value Unit (PVU). However, before purchasing a DAP solution, it is important to analyze specific points to evaluate the cost-benefit of each tool. For example: Does the environment to be monitored have mainframes? If so, it's a point for Guardium. If not, a point for Imperva. Note: IBM is looking into a new licensing policy and reducing the price of Guardium."

"The price is good for the quality of the solution."