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

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100% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Security Guardium Data ...

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

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Database Security (1st)

Sentrigo Hedgehog [EOL]

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7.0

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Ahmer Faisel Khan

Director | CTO at COMMTEL

Offers mature agents, compliance reporting and reliable database security

The solution should allow the data to shift to a centralized repository with elastic servers and big data infrastructure. If a customer searches for old logs for retention purposes, there are limitations on appliances once they are set with specific hardware, so they can only be changed by uninstalling or reinstalling the hardware. The solution's aggregator feature allows data aggregation, but for instance, if a customer wants a project ready in two years, having an Elasticsearch in DB or the capacity to store huge amounts of data would be beneficial in data investigation or evaluation at an affordable cost. Some AI features should be added to IBM Security Guardium Data Protection. For example, the AI features implemented in the solution can be anomaly detection or suspicious activity identification.

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Roi Nahari

CTO- Consulting Services at 2bsecure

It has the ability to stop any violation coming through via the database, but it should be able to detect more attacks.

Database security Its ability to stop any violation coming through via the database. The database's ability to see all the traffic going through to it. Sentrigo needs to become more advanced like its competitors, Imperva or IBM. It needs to detect more attacks and do more profiling of the…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It's made database monitoring more visible to the business, creating more conversations about how we should do it better."

"Guardium does a great job of capturing data and having the ability of trying to pull it out and make sense of it. Using it for business applications is its biggest capability."

"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."

"This is a multi-platform solution that consolidates everything and centralizes support for it."

"Its ability to find data."

"The product has proven to be flexible"

"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."

"Setting up Guardium was easy and straightforward."

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

Cons

"They could enable the out-of-the-box feature to track application user activity."

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

"I would like them to support cloud services."

"Using the data in native Guardium is difficult, at best."

"An area for improvement would be the user interface - currently, it takes around two to three months to become comfortable using it."

"If IBM Guardium Data Protection could find a way to not have a lot of coding and development required to get the solution up and running it would be an advantage. The information of the agent could improve, which is necessary for us to monitor the databases would be a great benefit."

"The user interface could be improved and modernized."

"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."

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

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"The price of the solution could be better."

"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."

"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."

"It is a very costly product."

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

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

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

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Financial Services Firm

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11%

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Questions from the Community

How does IBM Guardium Data Protection compare with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security?

IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is a solution for database security from IBM that gives complete visibility, control, and analysis to secure sensitive data and comply with regulations. IBM S...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Guardium Data Protection?

I don't remember the exact prices, but Guardium is an expensive tool because it is targeted towards corporate enterprises.

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What do you like most about IBM Security Guardium Data Protection?

The features I like are the robust policies, which allow us to create customized monitoring based on specific activities.

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Also Known As

InfoSphere Guardium, Guardium, IBM Guardium

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Overview

IBM Security Guardium Data Protection automatically discovers and classifies sensitive data from across the enterprise, providing real-time data activity monitoring and advanced user behavior analytics to help discover unusual activity around sensitive data.

Deploy the solution to help discover regulated data in your data stores and use pre-built templates for regulations such as PCI, SOX, HIPAA, CCPA and many more, to streamline and automate compliance workflows.

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McAfee database security offers real-time protection for business-critical databases from all types of threats: external, internal, and even intra-database exploits. This software-based offering provides robust security, streamlined database security management, and continuous compliance without requiring architecture changes, costly hardware, or downtime.

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Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC)

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