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

"Good data encryption and data masking features."

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

"It supports our audit compliance."

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

"I rate Guardium 10 out of 10 for data activity monitoring and nine for vulnerability assessment. It's easy to implement and does its job. But I would rate it seven out of 10 in terms of advanced features."

"The most valuable features are the reporting and data-level access control."

"I think IMB's technical support is good."

"Our main focus for IBM Guardium is to support security initiatives and compliance policies within our organization. We use the DPD product for monitoring, especially for GDPR, SOX regulations and, of course, the vulnerability assessment that we use to make sure we're keeping up with our patches, making sure things are configured, making sure we're following the best practices."

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

"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."

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

"The biggest complaint that I hear from customers and users is that using this solution requires database skills, yet it is a security and monitoring tool."

"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."

"The price of this solution is quite high for smaller organizations, so they should release a version that is affordable for small and medium-sized businesses."

"The user interface could be improved and modernized."

"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."

"I'd like to see a smoother GUI interface for the CAS agent - CAS does configurations on the database - to interface better with the vulnerability assessments."

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

"IBM solutions have fair price strategy, and operates on a yearly basis. If it's a SaaS solution, then you can opt for yearly basis."

"The price of the solution could be better."

"It is a very costly product."

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

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

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