IBM Security Guardium vs. Imperva Data Security

IBM Guardium is an ideal solution for the financial sector, providing data protection, regulatory compliance, insider threat detection and fraud prevention. Its comprehensive approach and advanced capabilities make it an essential tool for ensuring data security and integrity in financial institutions.

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

• It's easy to implement, you don't need to be an expert.
• The database is controlled and secure; its access is restricted to only authorized personnel.
• The detection of threats is very good since the data will not be damaged because the monitoring of the software is very attentive, so the errors are analyzed before something can be damaged.
• It has wonderful technical support willing to help at all times.

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

• Although it is a relatively simple software to use, it requires a bit of knowledge, which a new user cannot do without consolidating some previous knowledge.
• The technical support team is not ideal; although, on many occasions we have not needed their help, the times we have interacted it has left us wanting more.

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

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

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!

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.