IBM Guardium vs. Vanta

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Guardium
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
IBM Guardium is IBM's data security posture management solution, that aims to offer organizations comprehensive visibility, actionable insights and real-time controls to help users comply with regulations, preserve privacy and secure sensitive data no matter where it is stored.N/A
Vanta
Score 1.0 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Vanta is an automated security and compliance platform. Vanta helps businesses get and stay compliant by continuously monitoring people, systems and tools to improve security posture.N/A
Pricing
IBM GuardiumVanta
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM GuardiumVanta
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPricing is dependent based on data source environment.
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Community Pulse
IBM GuardiumVanta
Features
IBM GuardiumVanta
Governance, Risk & Compliance
Comparison of Governance, Risk & Compliance features of Product A and Product B
IBM Guardium
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Ratings
Vanta
1.0
9 Ratings
153% below category average
Common repository of GRC items00 Ratings1.09 Ratings
Risk management00 Ratings1.08 Ratings
Integration with Corporate Performance Management (CPM) systems00 Ratings1.05 Ratings
GRC policy management00 Ratings1.06 Ratings
Incident management00 Ratings1.07 Ratings
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IBM GuardiumVanta
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User Ratings
IBM GuardiumVanta
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(66 ratings)
1.0
(10 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.7
(5 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
5.4
(34 ratings)
2.0
(2 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
4.5
(5 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
4.5
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
6.4
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM GuardiumVanta
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
IBM Guardium DP is suitable for monitoring, auditing, data discovery, vulnerability analysis, and risk detection and investigation in relational and non-relational databases, cloud database services, indexed databases, and non-relational databases as well. IBM Guardium DPR is appropriate for supporting the process of detecting anomalous behavior in accessing sensitive data, helping to optimize the work of cybersecurity analysts or data team analysts by providing the data officer within our organization with insight into compromised users, compromised databases, or file servers containing sensitive data.
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Vanta
Vanta seems excellent for startups, but I expect that they would be even more useful at bigger companies. I think it really helps people that haven't done SOC2 before. I also think it would help in monitoring compliance across teams with many users. If the budget is extremely tight, I think it would be possible to save money by not using it.
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Pros
IBM
  • Provides complete monitoring of data access and usage activities.
  • Provides customizable security controls and policies that help us meet compliance and regulatory requirements.
  • Uses advanced algorithms and machine learning to detect abnormal behavior patterns.
  • Helps us protect sensitive and confidential data by controlling access.
  • Integrates easily with other security systems and tools.
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Vanta
  • API driven capabilities offer a very easy way to connect your systems to their application.
  • It was mostly intuitive to figure out what needed to be configured.
  • I like how responsive they have been and how they have been able to outline the entire process for us from the start to the end.
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Cons
IBM
  • Cleanup the menu bar- way too many items.
  • Ktap support for newer O/S. Recently, I have had to open support tickets to get the most recent support for the RHEL Kernel.
  • Also, upgrading agents to V12 doesnt not have the same Flex or exact match for KTAP as 11.5. You would think V12 would have the same Kernel support as 11.5. Clients are moving to V12.
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Vanta
  • In my opinion, they make it very hard to contact them when you need something.
  • In my experience, they write their contracts to make it difficult to cancel service.
  • In my experience, they have no policy for refunds in addition to their [...] contacts.
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
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.
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Vanta
Great to maintain for our SOC2 compliance and further compliance evolutions
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Usability
IBM
This software is not the easiest to use in all work environments, each department has some difficulties accessing and managing some functions, it can be considered a complex softy, but I consider it necessary to have it in the company due to its security qualities of warm cans, it offers exactly what it promises but with a little difficulty in its configuration.
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Vanta
In my experience, the sheer volume of tasks and to do items is a bit inundating.
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Reliability and Availability
IBM
No answers on this topic
Vanta
Always available
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Performance
IBM
No answers on this topic
Vanta
Fast although the agent may take some time to reping on checks
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Support Rating
IBM
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
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Vanta
Direct support and replies in a timely manner to tickets submitted
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In-Person Training
IBM
No answers on this topic
Vanta
Pretty straight forward
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Online Training
IBM
No answers on this topic
Vanta
Straight Forward
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Implementation Rating
IBM
No answers on this topic
Vanta
Pretty seemless and did it almost entirely myself
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
IBM Security Guardium has extended capabilities of automatically locating databases and assessing the vulnerabilities and configuration flaws in them. IBM Security Guardium stacks up against other products due to the additional features that can be easily added to your IT systems after installation. Additionally, Guardium has the ability to monitor a mainframe database environment which makes it the best choice!
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Vanta
Vanta's reporting was far superior, the price was competitive but my engineers running the project said that working with vanta would save them significant amount of time. Secondly vanta had more integrations so they could plug directly into the systems we use!
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Scalability
IBM
Only a few users in our shop for now
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Vanta
Works as intended
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • Security and monitoring are important in a financial institution
  • Constant visibility and auditing of companies is easy with IBM Guardium.
  • la seguridad y monitored es important en una entidad financiera
  • la visibilidad y auditoria constante de empresas es facil con IBM Guardium
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Vanta
  • We were able to close contracts because we had our SOCII compliance in place
  • SOCII certification process was reduced by at least 80%
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ScreenShots

IBM Guardium Screenshots

Screenshot of the IBM Guardium Data Protection dashboard showing all the features. One click can take you to databases or to data analytics.Screenshot of IBM Guardium Data Protection: The S-TAP and GIM Dashboard gives real-time visibility into the health and performance of S-TAPs. It is used to track the status of different S-TAP versions, see database activity across inspection engines, and view detailed insights by operating system.Screenshot of IBM Guardium DSPM: Discovery, Classification & Threat Monitoring - Automate cloud data security with discovery, classification, and continuous threat monitoring. This offers a unified view of sensitive data across cloud workloads (AWS, Azure, GCP) and SaaS (SharePoint, OneDrive, Slack, Google Drive, Jira, Confluence and more), understand its risk level, and ensure ongoing protection and compliance.Screenshot of IBM Guardium DSPM: Discovery, Classification & Threat Monitoring - Automate cloud data security with discovery, classification, and continuous threat monitoring. This offers a unified view of sensitive data across cloud workloads (AWS, Azure, GCP) and SaaS (SharePoint, OneDrive, Slack, Google Drive, Jira, Confluence and more), understand its risk level, and ensure ongoing protection and compliance.Screenshot of IBM Guardium DSPM: Discovery, Classification & Threat Monitoring - Automate cloud data security with discovery, classification, and continuous threat monitoring. This offers a unified view of sensitive data across cloud workloads (AWS, Azure, GCP) and SaaS (SharePoint, OneDrive, Slack, Google Drive, Jira, Confluence and more), understand its risk level, and ensure ongoing protection and compliance.

Vanta Screenshots

Screenshot of Vanta's task management, used to monitor a control system and take action on outstanding configuration issues, security issues, and required compliance tasks.Screenshot of the results of a risk assessment and identified risks to a business.Screenshot of policy that can be generated from templates or by uploading a company's existing policies that describe the business' internal and external commitments to security and compliance.Screenshot of vendor assessments.Screenshot of employee and contractor task completion status monitoring. Take action to flag ex-employee accounts to be deprovisioned or service accounts that are not included in onboarding processes.Screenshot of Vanta's monitoring, used to take action to remediate package vulnerabilities that have been detected on a company servers.