Digital Guardian vs. Imperva Data Security

Digital Guardian has excellent data-preventing solutions, which locate and protect [that] database that [is] super sensitive. More so, Digital Guardian offers complete coverage of endpoint safety and network monitoring. Again, Digital Guardian has a team of elite professionals, who screens and detect any cyber threats. Finally, Digital Guardian has improvised and detailed attack response, very efficient in making the right controls.

Incentivized

Compliance to audits and HiTrust certification. It is key in ensuring that our audits are completed in a timely manner with no repeats of data requests and that we also are HiTrust certified at our organization. Personally while the data obfuscation is available I am not sure I would fully trust that the data is completely sanitized if need be. It's not against the Imperva product but more of issue of data being used.

Incentivized

• Email data leaks - DLP software must prevent certain actions to work well. Let's say you try to copy and paste an SS # to an email, or upload sensitive data to your personal email account. Guardian Edge can prevent that, and then alert administrators that it happened
• Unauthorized file copies - Guardian Edge can also prevent users from copying files from a sensitive restricted area to somewhere else where they might be able to more easily exfiltrate it. A good example would be from a company file share to a less secure server or their own home drive
• Alerting Administrators of suspicious activities - Any time a user uploads a file to an upload service or personal email, it is logged and reported as an event to be reviewed. If it found nothing in scanning the data, it will still notify you that it happened so you can review it yourself to confirm it wasn't a false negative.

Incentivized

• Alerts when suspicious activity is detected
• Records all database transactions for analysis
• Determines activities in stored procedures

• Digital Guardian is perfect in database protection, hence, no complaint.
• Digital Guardian makes the detection process effective, hence, reliable.
• Finally, Digital Guardian is cloud focused or delivered, hence, concrete and efficient.

Incentivized

• Navigation of the menus can get confusing pretty quickly. Since there are so many, it is extremely easy to get lost. Almost too many options and data.
• Configuring the agents can be very difficult if you are new to it. Having to save after every single change made to an agent during a configuration can be very tedious. Also having to make sure certain options are checked off in two separate places for a single option is very annoying.
• Navigation of the menus is not always intuitive and not very obvious that the option you are looking change is located in that menu.

Incentivized

DG is the only DLP platform I've used at my current employer. I used it at my previous employer as well, and we ended up abandoning future deployments of it due to many problems caused by it, especially with web browsers. This was in 2015, rather than the 2018 version I used with my current employer, but I feel it still warrants mentioning. DG works great...when it works. When it doesn't, it's a disaster.

Incentivized

• The professional threat detectors and cyber security analysts [increase] the reliability of the company database.
• Cloud coverage allows easy deployment and efficient systematic controls.
• Lastly, Digital Guardian [values] and monitors the procedures or the roles that every player makes in the company.

Incentivized

• Allowed us to meet important compliance requirements.
• When protecting critical data, we can see exactly how it's being used and by whom.
• Licensing costs are very reasonable.
• It takes a fair amount of administration to use properly.