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IBM Security Guardium

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What is IBM Security Guardium?

IBM Security 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 your sensitive data — no matter where it…

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10 out of 10
February 19, 2024
We are using as db monitoring tool. Analyzing critical table manipulations, table exporting, db exporting etc.
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Product Details

What is IBM Security Guardium?

Whether focusing on data use, protection, governance, or reporting, some businesses need a solution that supports a zero-trust approach to data security across its lifecycle on-premises or in the cloud. The IBM Security™ Guardium® portfolio protects sensitive and regulated data across fragmented environments. Here’s a peek at the products within the Guardium portfolio:

IBM Security Guardium Data Protection discovers and classifies sensitive data from across the enterprise, providing real-time data activity monitoring and advanced user behavior analytics to help discover unusual activity around sensitive data.

IBM Security Guardium Insights provides centralized data security across the hybrid multi-cloud. Adapt and scale with modern architecture, streamline compliance and audit processes, and share contextual risk insights across security teams to support zero trust.

IBM Security Guardium Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) helps discover cloud shadow data, analyze data flow between regions, and uncover vulnerabilities across cloud and SaaS applications

IBM Security Guardium Data Encryption (GDE) consists of a unified suite of products built on a common infrastructure. These scalable solutions provide data encryption, tokenization, data masking, and key management capabilities to help protect and control access to data across the hybrid multi-cloud environment.

IBM Security Discover and Classify provides integrated discovery and classification of structured and unstructured data across all environments. IBM Security Discover and Classify is part of the IBM Security Guardium suite of products.

IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager centralizes, simplifies, and automates the encryption key management process to help protect encrypted data and simplify encryption key management. Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager helps customers meet regulations such as PCI DSS, Sarbanes-Oxley, and HIPAA by providing access control, key rotation, and other automated key lifecycle management processes.

IBM Security Guardium Vulnerability Assessment scans data infrastructures such as databases, data warehouses, and big data environments to detect vulnerabilities and suggests remedial actions. This vulnerability assessment tool identifies exposures such as missing patches, weak passwords, unauthorized changes, and misconfigured privileges.

IBM Data Risk Manager provides executives and their teams with a business-consumable data risk control center that helps to uncover, analyze, and visualize data-related business risks so they can take action to protect their business.


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IBM Security Guardium Features

  • Supported: Ability to monitor, receive & issue alerts in real-time
  • Supported: Data encryption, data masking & tokenization
  • Supported: Advanced data threat analytics
  • Supported: Centralized management of encryption keys
  • Supported: Ability to manage data risk across complex IT environments
  • Supported: Ability to discover & analyze both structured & unstructured data assets
  • Supported: Vulnerability assessments & recommendations
  • Supported: Ability to maintain a tamper-proof audit trail
  • Supported: Compliance quick starts & features around compliance monitoring
  • Supported: Out-of-the-box dashboards
  • Supported: Ability to integrate with SIEM solutions
  • Supported: Ability to block, mask & quarantine data access
  • Supported: Flexible deployment options & variety of connectors
  • Supported: Ability to detect dormant accounts or misconfigured entitlements
  • Supported: Out-of-the-box discovery & classification patterns
  • Supported: Heterogeneous integration with other security solutions

IBM Security Guardium Technical Details

Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

IBM Security 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 your sensitive data — no matter where it is stored.

BigID, AWS Security Hub, and Oracle Security Monitoring and Analytics are common alternatives for IBM Security Guardium.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.5.

The most common users of IBM Security Guardium are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It did help us proactively monitor for data security threats, which eliminated a lot of manual tasks. Apart from that, we can give everyone a custom password to get access to our system, so if needed, we can change that password only, and others won't be affected.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It takes volume snapshots. The snapshots store safely on storage. it is not allowed delete until coming expire date. So it provides security layer for our business. It has anomaly detection. It checks anytime if there is any abnormal situations it takes actions. Again there is another security layer for us.
FURKAN GÖKCAN | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Of course, it is a useful product in many ways. Thanks to this product, many findings were found and database users who made erroneous transactions and DBAs who engaged in critical activities could be detected. We also encountered situations where database teams detected tools or services that were working unnecessarily and producing failed logins through Guardium logs.
February 19, 2024

Guard

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Of course, product is useful for regulations and audit mechanism.
Brandon Lowry | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Security Guardium enables our company to proactively monitor data security threats, which positively impacts its security posture by quickly detecting and addressing potential data breaches, as well as improving future threat prevention and compliance.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is very common that it generates many security alerts with false positives, but considering that our security increased its efficiency and exponential growth by more than 30% without requiring new licenses, I believe that it has met and exceeded our expectations for the year, this can only be translated in very favorable results.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The security is real with this software; you can guarantee the security in our database and allow access only with some administrative permissions; we feel that the company has made the best deal in terms of data security. Everything is handled in real-time and has features that help to effectively manage all the company's high-risk systems. The modules it offers are varied and are implemented according to the needs of all departments.
Abhishek Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Guardium helps in different ways by monitoring and auditing, vulnerability management, data transformation, real-time security rules, and intelligent reporting to facilitate the identification and defense against both internal and external threats. I have contributed to the automation and security of data from different databases and application platforms. In fact, the scheduling, automating, and monitoring systems for data storage and access are beneficial.
Anshuman Bhatnagar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Security Guardium has definitely helped us implement better security controls and improve the security posture of the organization when it comes to database security. There are limited tools out in the market that are specific for database security and IBM Security Guardium is definitely the leader among them all.
Meena Prasad | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Currently, we have more peace of mind by keeping our data safe; it ensures that each user has the appropriate permissions to enter the system, the analyzes are very fast, with this system, we get fewer errors, since before using IBM Security Guardium we had great vulnerabilities in our data and few possibilities of resolution of problems.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Security Guardium is playing a vital role in safeguarding all our critical data items by helping us in keeping track of all the activities being performed on the data. The alerts and notifications are the best features and help us in taking action effectively.
rajat gaur | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As we can set up access level rights for each user, this helps in tracking each account very easily, and any suspicious activity could easily be reported. Also, we can control the database access as well. The advanced analytics functionality helps in making better decisions against security threats.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Security Guardium has done an amazing job of assuring us about data security. We get the alerts on time if there is any suspicious activity and reports are also automated to serve us in a better way.
Mansi Talwar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Security Guardium provides real-time tracking and flagging of unusual activities in the databases. It helps to monitor a large number of databases at once and can be used to monitor individual accounts as well. Also, it helps in protecting the organization's critical data with the help of auditing capabilities. It automatically identifies the threats that can be a risk to the databases.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Security Guardium has immensely helped us in reducing the risks for our critical data. We feel much more secure now as we can monitor the data in a real-time and if there are any anomalies then it sends us notifications that are having a positive impact on our organization and client trust.
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