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

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

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

"It tests security to support SOX compliance."

"We are using it to do a lot of data discovery from a data classification for structured data."

"What I like about IBM Guardium Data Protection is that some of its features were deployed by collectors during the installation phase. The solution has collector and aggregator features, license installation, and even server patches that you won't find in other security providers. I like the collector-aggregator capabilities of IBM Guardium Data Protection where you install each component on separate servers, then on the aggregator, you collect all the logs on a central server or central console."

"It protects sensitive data and blocks unauthorized access to the data."

"The most valuable features have been how easy it is to deploy and use, as well as the comprehensive monitoring options. These are a few things that customers like most about this product."

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

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

"The backup and recovery is very resource-hungry and requires a huge amount of storage capacity."

"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."

"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."

"The deployment is complex and requires expertise to deploy."

"Guardium's storage capabilities could use some improvement. I'd also like to have some better integration using digital technology or a connector."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"The cost depends on the number of databases. You can purchase advanced licenses, but the standard license is calculated based on the number of databases you have to onboard."

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

"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."

"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."

"I would suggest to review the type of data, need for security, and if the organizational structure needs the options IBM Guardium provides."

"It's an expensive solution"