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IBM Guardium

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What is IBM Guardium?

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.

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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.

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Screenshot of the IBM Guardium Data Protection dashboard showing all the features. One click can take you to databases or to data analytics.

IBM Guardium Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features IBM Guardium has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 181 ratings of IBM Guardium's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Real-Time Data Detection and Response (DDR)

    Integrates DDR to provide real-time monitoring of data activity, flagging anomalous behaviors.

    Category average: 8

  • Security Posture Assessment & Risk Prioritization

    Identifies structural security drift and misconfiguration and flags vulnerabilities based on the sensitivity of exposed data.

    Category average: 7.8

  • Shadow & Dark Data Identification

    Uncovers undocumented database or forgotten files that exist outside of official IT/security inventories.

    Category average: 7.5

Areas for Improvement

  • Non-Intrusive, Agentless Scanning

    Agentless architecture for scanning without degrading database performance or violating host boundaries.

    Category average: 7.4

  • Automated Remediation Workflows

    Automated remediation to fix risky permissions, remove stale access, or lock down exposed buckets.

    Category average: 7.4

  • Data Access & Entitlement Mapping

    Analyzes IAM policies, roles, and Access Control Lists (ACLs) to determine who or what has read/write access to sensitive datasets.

    Category average: 7.2

Who Buys & Uses IBM Guardium

Most Frequent Users

Top 3 industries using IBM Guardium.

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#1 most frequent

Finance and Insurance

28.0%

162 installations of 578

“delete audit insert audit update audit”

— Database administrator, Cigna (Enterprises)
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#2 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

21.3%

123 installations of 578

“The scope is to identify reach wherever it is, assessment, and protect the database, for financial and other enterprises.”

— Security Delivery Manager, Mainsoft (Mid-sized Companies)
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#3 most frequent

Information

9.5%

55 installations of 578

“We use the product to protect our database in DB two because we use AS 400 and the main problem is to protect all”

— Operation Manager, Contel (Small Businesses)
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IBM Guardium Reviews

What users are saying about IBM Guardium.
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Pros

  • Robust Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) for deep visibility into operations and privileged access.
  • Comprehensive data protection features, including encryption.
  • Strong support for compliance reporting and audit readiness.

Cons

  • User interface and overall ease of use, particularly for policy configuration and administration.
  • General product complexity, especially when defining rules and personalizing reports.
  • Challenging initial setup and complex, large upgrades.

IBM Guardium and its life changing managing Databases

Incentivized
Javier González
Cybersecurity Engineer at BCI Seguros Generales (501-1000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Actually we use IBM Guardium to analyze, govern and process all the information across all over the clients that we have. Actually, the problem is that there is a lot of information that we need to process, and it has to be done manually, because we have not implemented any of the solutions that IBM has offered yet, because we were not in knowledge everything it has to offer. Here in this [...], we've seen so many options that can help to improve, analyze and detect any kind of sensitive and personal information that we were doing manually. So i'm very grateful for this event and hope we can implement as many options that i saw here.

Pros

  • Detect all the information on the Databases
  • Protect and secures non authorized users movements
  • To improve the secure on the execution
  • Create cases to deliver to the db administrators.

Cons

  • The platform at the beginning is bit complex to analyze
  • The reports are also difficult to create, maybe a bit of frontend changes to improve reports visualization
  • Maybe a better functionality by doing blocks to the users.

Return on Investment

  • The time saving was one of the best improvements made by IBM Guardium, because we now have all the visibility we needed without having to ask for the db admins
  • we also improved the compliance doing by auditors in the daily tasks.

Alternatives Considered

IBM Guardium, IBM Security QRadar EDR and IBM Security QRadar SIEM

Other Software Used

IBM Security QRadar SIEM, IBM Security QRadar EDR

A Reliable Platform for Database Security and Compliance

Incentivized
cesar Ortiz Rosa
Cyber Threat Vulnerability Lead in Information Technology at Evertec (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use IBM Guardium Data Protection as part of our enterprise data security strategy to monitor and protect sensitive information across our database environment. The primary business challenge we address are gaining centralized visibility into database activity, identifying potentially unauthorized or risk access, supporting regulatory and audit requierements, and strengthening controls around sensitive data.

Pros

  • Deep Visibility into database activity and privileged access
  • Centralzied autiting and compliance reporting
  • Scalable monitoring across global database enviroments

Cons

  • Users interface could be more intuitive, especially for policy configuration and administration
  • Upgrades and maintenance can be complex and large
  • Reporting and dashboards could offer more flexibility and easier customization

Return on Investment

  • Improve compliance by centralizinf databased monitoring and audit reporting
  • Reduced manual effort requiered to collect and review database audit information
  • Improved visibility into privileged and activity involving sensitive data

IBM Guardium in a finance company

Incentivized
enzo gabriel crima de souza
Cibersecurity Analyst in Finance and Accounting at Banco Bv (5001-10,000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use to use the monitoring module to watch everything that happens on the databases

Pros

  • Database monitoring
  • database classify

Cons

  • the active threat analitycs is not so usefull yet
  • hard manegment in all collectors/aggregators

Return on Investment

  • the database classify is very good to identify where is de PCI informations
  • We can answer all the audit teams requests

Best Data Protection Solution

Incentivized
Laura Vasquez
CEO in Information Technology at Business and technology Integration (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Guardium has helped many of our clients , from different industries to have a very strong Data Security Strategy

Pros

  • Monitor Database activity
  • Discovery and Classify sensitive data

Cons

  • Files and Data base encryption

Return on Investment

  • Excellent with compliance and audits
  • Great for threat detection and response
  • Great for Data Governance

Alternatives Considered

Imperva Application Firewall

Other Software Used

IBM Optim

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Incentivized
Ram Kaza
IT Principal Sr Manager in Engineering at Cigna (501-1000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use IBM Guardium for database security vulnerability scanning and reports

Pros

  • It provides detailed security vulnerability reports

Cons

  • It requires a database restart for PostgreSQL. Hopefully in future no restart is needed

Return on Investment

  • it helps us to stay on top on the security vulnerabilities

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