We performed a comparison between Imperva SecureSphere Database Security and Informatica Persistent Data Masking based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Imperva, Oracle and others in Database Security."This solution has helped secure our Internet-based services, protecting us against DoS and other types of web-based attacks."
"The integration is great."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the database security policy."
"There are three major main use cases of this solution. The first one is to fulfill compliance regulations. Customers—especially the banks, health sector, and manufacturing—need to comply with the regulations in different countries. They have to fulfill compliance regulations around the privacy of data. In order to fulfill those requirements, they're using Imperva. It helps them to fulfill these requirements, and they are not fined by the regulators. That is the first use case why people buy Imperva."
"Database reporting features are valuable to us."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"The most valuable feature is the automatic reports on new databases, which gives us up-to-date inventory management."
"Currently, we have audit features for auditing databases, for example, granular auditing, which we really enjoy. We've been using it to check what users do."
"Informatica Persistent Data Masking can mask production data for different users, ensuring that only authorized individuals can access sensitive information."
"Informatica is user-friendly, stable, and scalable. These three aspects are the most valuable for us. If we can make it work well with the CRM, we can continue or try again this year to complete that part of the project. I am confident that this kind of solution is what we need because we have a third-party resource that works in the development."
"The most valuable features are the structure masking and platform masking."
"The most valuable feature is data discovery. This is the most exciting feature for all of the banks."
"Informatica provides a comprehensive solution for on-the-fly or real-time data masking."
"Overall, it's a very good product but they could do with some modifications log-wise."
"Imperva SecureSphere Database Security can improve something in all the versions I have used."
"I'd like to see some sort of solution for storage."
"The firewall features are not very strong and should be improved."
"Data encryption. Yeah, Imperva needs to pull up on data encryption and make it a standard feature to allow maybe for tokenization, encryption of data, and things like that."
"There is sometimes lost communication and it can take a lot of troubleshooting to solve."
"The interface is not user-friendly."
"I have worked with IBM before, and I prefer its ease of deployment and management. Imperva SecureSphere Database Security has tricky deployment, whereas IBM's deployment is straightforward because of the UI."
"I have encountered some issues using the substitution, which is one of the techniques of data masking."
"Informatica should simplify the rules for setting classifications and user access management permissions. It's too complex to define, configure, and make work."
"Once the data is masked, we won't be able to reverse it back to its original value."
"The data discovery isn't that good yet for Salesforce. We have another tool that we use for this. It may be a problem because Salesforce on the cloud."
"Informatica's support understands the solution, but they lack the experience we need for our use case. That was one thing that we prioritized when we started searching for this kind of solution."
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Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is ranked 2nd in Database Security with 52 reviews while Informatica Persistent Data Masking is ranked 6th in Data Masking with 5 reviews. Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is rated 8.2, while Informatica Persistent Data Masking is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Imperva SecureSphere Database Security writes "The fine-grained auditing available on the platform makes life easier and helps explain anything happening in your database". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica Persistent Data Masking writes "Enables secure data protection during testing and controlled access to sensitive information". Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is most compared with IBM Security Guardium Data Protection, Oracle Audit Vault, DataSunrise Database Security and Trustwave DbProtect, whereas Informatica Persistent Data Masking is most compared with Delphix, Protegrity Data Security, IBM Security Guardium Data Protection, IBM InfoSphere Optim and Oracle GoldenGate.
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