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IBM Guardium Vulnerability Assessment pros and cons

Vendor: IBM
3.0 out of 5

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PROS

IBM Guardium Vulnerability Assessment offers strong reporting features with many configurable built-in reports.
It provides simple English recommendations on actions needed upon discovering vulnerabilities.
It aids compliance with regulatory requirements.
It enhances security analytics and analysis.
The Vulnerability Assessment feature is stable and efficiently identifies numerous database vulnerabilities.

CONS

It was lacking in terms of the ease of the setup.
There should be an automatic agent for deployment.
The internal database of the collector is MySQL, which is not powerful or flexible.
Building policies is not that easy.
Some default settings, like displaying values, are turned off.
 

IBM Guardium Vulnerability Assessment Pros review quotes

SL
Jun 25, 2025
The Vulnerability Assessment feature is quite stable and helps identify numerous vulnerabilities in databases.
GK
Dec 31, 2019
The reporting features are good and there are many built-in reports that can be quickly configured.
reviewer1714710 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 24, 2022
It helped with some of the regulatory requirements. It also helped with some of the security analytics and analysis. It was worthwhile from that perspective.
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OA
Mar 16, 2020
The most valuable feature is that it provides a simple English recommendation on actions that you need to take once a vulnerability is discovered.
 

IBM Guardium Vulnerability Assessment Cons review quotes

SL
Jun 25, 2025
There is only one problem I experienced while using Guardium: the internal database of the collector is MySQL, which is not so powerful or flexible.
GK
Dec 31, 2019
Building policies is not that easy. There are some things that are turned off by default, for example, displaying values.
reviewer1714710 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 24, 2022
It was not as easy to use. The user-friendliness of it was somewhat lower than what I was expecting. It was also lacking in terms of the ease of the setup. There should be an automatic agent for deployment.
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OA
Mar 16, 2020
The interface could be improved by having sub-groups of tests, ultimately making the process of collecting tests faster.