IBM Guardium vs. Imperva Data Security vs. Symantec Data Center Security

It checks many boxes when it comes to security. It allows you to see all the DB activity that goes on, report on it, and send it to SIEM. The analytics part extends this product even more. The investigation dashboard makes it easier to find outliers or specifics without running queries or reports.

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

• The administration is easy and intuitive
• The user learning curve is rapid
• The security offered and the database monitoring profiles are great.
• La administration es facil e intuitiva
• La curva de aprendizaje del usuario es rapida
• la seguridad ofrecida y los perfiles de monitoreo de bases de Datos es grandiosa

Incentivized

• The options available for auditing are outstanding.
• The system has very good reliability and tuning options for the agents on the servers.
• The data gathered is fantastic and presented in a format that is easily readable for auditors.
• For on prem usage our servers have had no issues. The Linux is extremely resilient and we have no issues with the boxes.

Incentivized

• Large activity reports are easier to generate
• that is capable of performing activity profiling to learn to identify abnormal activity
• that has the ability to integrate with reporting tools
• that has a mobile interface
• los reportes de actividades grandes Sean mas faciles de generar
• que sea capaz de realizar un profiling de actividades para aprender a identificar actividad anormal
• que Tenga la posibilidad de integrarse con herramientas de reporteria
• que Tenga una interfaz movil

Incentivized

• Alerts require a lot of tuning to get actionable intelligence
• Certain common encryption ciphers are incompatible with Imperva and have to be disabled at the server level
• Technical support is sometimes a little hard to work with

It is a perfect system to detect problems that we do not see manually, it is light, with a very simple learning curve and with great protection of our data, we will use it forever.

Incentivized

It might look complex in the beginning but once you get hold of it by going through all of the documentation then it seems to be very smooth. The configuration is comparatively easy and the user can understand it on their own without any external help. The overall learning curve is Ok.

Incentivized

There has been great support coming from IBM. It is easy to use and a great way to keep our data secure. I would recommend this to other possible users and if I were to move companies, I would recommend we use this there too. Thank you

Incentivized

If I compare Imperva to IBM Guardium, I could define three very important differentiators. The first is that IBM Guardium has a much more advanced suite of analytical investigation and risk detection tools than Imperva, which allows for a turnkey solution with IBM Guardium Data Protection product, allowing for greater efficiency in incident detection and response to the same threats. The second differentiator is support for monitoring unstructured data, such as Word files, PowerPoint files, Excel files, PDF files, among others, stored in a Windows or Linux file server, data stored in SharePoint, and finally, data stored on a NAS. Imperva lacks this feature for monitoring unstructured data, so IBM Guardium Data Protection is the winner and helps organizations cover the entire overall scope of data repositories. And finally, I'd like to emphasize support and compatibility for relational databases, DBaaS, and market databases, which I've seen Imperva lack coverage for. IBM Guardium has greater monitoring and protection coverage for databases, whether relational or non-relational, cloud database services, and even mainframes with indexed file systems.

Only a few users in our shop for now

Incentivized

• Helps protect sensitive and confidential data, reducing the risk of data breaches and their financial and reputational consequences.
• Provides regulatory compliance capabilities, helping organizations comply with regulations and standards specific to their industry.
• Provides complete visibility and control over data access and usage activities.

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.