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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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Employee in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Banking Company, 10,001+ employees
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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

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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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Reviews and Ratings

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April 15, 2024

Protect your sensitive data with IBM Security Guardium.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
We use IBM Security Guardium to handle our sensitive on-premises and cloud data securely and compliantly. IBM Security Guardium has automatic database integration, self-monitoring alerts, AI anomaly detection, and pre-written reports and queries, so if you want to keep your data secure, you should go with it.
April 02, 2024

review of IBM Guardium

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Banking Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Data protection and Guardium key lifecycle management are useful tools. You can implement them easily. Other brand storages support Guardium key lifecycle management. After 8.6 firmware version, IBM storage family support Guardium data protection. You can take secure snapshot on volume. You can create policy for snapshot operations. It manage and runs automatically.
March 31, 2024

IBM Security Guardium Data Protection Review

FURKAN GÖKCAN | TrustRadius Reviewer
FURKAN GÖKCAN
Security Engineer
Exclusive Networks (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It is an adequate product for many purposes. It has a very stable structure in terms of installation, policy and report layout, and database logging. It has a very smooth and simple process for patch upgrading. We can use correlation alarms very effectively. Inactive STAP and Inactive Managed Unit alerts are life saver in some cases. Also, buff usage monitor is a beautiful interface and the buffer of agents is crucial not to lose logs. But, Guardium is not logging tool activities. Also, not logging ".sql" scripts.
March 28, 2024

IBM Security Guardium Best Tool to go with FAST !!!!!!!!

Verified User
Advisor in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
real-time monitoring activities across multiple databases, spotting abnormal access patterns or unauthorized attempts to reach sensitive data, like accessing BigData and datalakes . It alerts institutions, aiding in preventing breaches and ensuring compliance with laws like PCI DSS by offering detailed audit trails.
February 21, 2024

Secure your clients' private information with IBM Security Guardium

DH
Delia Heaney
Analyst
Trinetix (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I very much recommend it due to its AI scanning abilities and being able to detect anomaly. Though not all alerts are an anomaly and there were cases that the alert was an false positive. Additionally it can automate most task hence reducing your workload.
February 19, 2024

Guard

Verified User
Consultant in Engineering
Banking Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
We just detect some of guys in some office was trying to manipulate some invoces. When we realize this company immediately get fired them!
We are planning to use DBFW feature for all of our clients. A man/women can only access db from his/her own pc.
January 05, 2024

Robust financial data protection

Brandon Lowry | TrustRadius Reviewer
Brandon Lowry
Cyber Security Specialist
Beyond Finance (Financial Services, 201-500 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
December 17, 2023

Monitoring and protection of the database with IBM Security Guardium.

Verified User
Project Manager in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
In summary, this tool in general has great potential, all the features that we have managed to test have been worth it, obtaining the expected results. It has the ability to protect all the internal data of your company. Implementing it is a wise choice there is no doubt about that, reporting, monitoring, automation, and threat protection, are the main functions that we use.
December 14, 2023

Protect your data with this powerful security tool!!!

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
A consolidated company must maintain the security and total protection of its data in good hands, which is why IBM Security Guard offers for your benefit the most controlled and most appropriate security for your business. Although this tool is somewhat expensive, it is worth the risk to keep the data in full control. Risk activities in the organization will be detected in advance in order to avoid any serious damage that could affect the business's future, avoiding any theft that is confidential and compromising. This product is easy to implement and has good technical service.
November 23, 2023

Data Protection with IBM Security Guardium.

Abhishek Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Abhishek Kumar
Assistant Manager
BAJAJ FINANCIAL SECURITIES LIMITED (Capital Markets, 501-1000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
With Guardium products, customers can examine organization data widely. They are better able to handle the audits and have greater control over the data in this way. Data Protection and its encrypted Features like Vulnerability Assessments and CAS enhance database security as well and Database addition under Guardium footprint print is done by using a lightweight agent installed on the DB Server that has negligible performance impact.
September 27, 2023

Data protection solution

Verified User
Analyst in Quality Assurance
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
As I mentioned, it helps us to trigger our any unusual suspetious external or internal activity to secure application. Real time monitoring of the data help for secure data protection which helps to dected unusual threads.
September 26, 2023

Expensive But The Best in Class

Anshuman Bhatnagar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Anshuman Bhatnagar
Security Specialist
Tata Consultancy Services (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Security Guardium is the last line of defense against attackers, including insider threats. IBM Security Guardium helps in analyzing and reporting on database activity from both a compliance and security standpoint, provides evidence for breach investigations, and alerts on suspicious events. The ability to create customized detections is a plus.

September 23, 2023

IBM Security Guardium is a complete solution for users with high technical skill

DC
Deivis Campos
Cybersecurity Analist
SICOOB (Financial Services, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Security Guardium works very well at discovering vulnerabilities and storing logs. On the other hand, there is a lot of room for improvement in the communication between the agent and the server and also in the updates.
March 20, 2023

Incredible features to keep our data safe.

Meena Prasad | TrustRadius Reviewer
Meena Prasad
Information Technology Security Analyst
ManTech (Information Services, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It is a perfect system for companies with a high volume of data since it allows the data to be secure, the detection of threats is instantaneous and automatic, it does not require complicated procedures to configure it, it also adapts to internal needs and helps us to fix problems instantly. I am pleased to say that it is a system that I recommend for companies to stay away from threats and protect data in a very secure way.
January 27, 2023

Robustly protect and monitor your data

Wiliam de Faria | TrustRadius Reviewer
Wiliam de Faria
Head Privacidade de Dados - DPO LGPD/GPDR
GFT Brazil (Information Technology & Services, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
ensure the analysis of vulnerability and risk of personal data within the corporation and secure encryption of data in a fast and performative way, easy administration by administering cryptographic keys
September 27, 2022

IBM Security Guardium - your data security Guardian.

Maria Coulter | TrustRadius Reviewer
Maria Coulter
Full Stack Engineer
NexusTek (Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
We put great value on our client's data which prompts us to always have a robust and secure system to protect it. With IBM Security Guardium, data from your entire cloud environment is synchronously encrypted by an impenetrable system. The Guardium Vulnerability Assessment module scans for vulnerabilities or threats, tightening the security further.
May 12, 2022

Properly Satisfied with Data Security

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Logistics & Supply Chain Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Security Guardium is very well suited for large organizations and provides an end to end Data Security. All the activities related to your critical data are continuously monitored and all suspicious ones are alerted in real-time. There are a lot of functionalities available in this like reporting, dashboards, and easy integration.
May 10, 2022

Best in Class for security of your Data.

rajat gaur | TrustRadius Reviewer
rajat gaur
Consultant
Capgemini Invent (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Security Guardium is very well suited for big organizations, and it helps us maintain data security by minimizing the risks and threats. The alerts functionality is very flexible and successful, but we faced some issues while integrating with the SIEM platform. The data component management is very efficient.
May 10, 2022

High Security for your Data!

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Insurance Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Security Guardium is a bit of a pricey solution so it isn't a proper fit for small-mid level organizations. The alerts functionality is amazing and helps us a lot. Your critical data will stay secure with this tool because of its effective and easy administration.
May 10, 2022

Efficient and Productive Data Security Tool

Mansi Talwar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mansi Talwar
Senior Consultant
KPMG India (Accounting, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It is best suited for large-scale organizations that require additional security over their databases and cloud-based databases as well. It is the best tool that provides a lot of features. It helps to detect unusual activities and helps to set up real-time triggers for individual accounts as well. With this product, it has now become very easier to protect user information.
May 06, 2022

Great Data Security Tool

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Security Guardium is very robust in terms of its functionalities and helps in accessing the real-time monitoring of our data. It has great automation power to maximize the data protection of your critical data. It is much more suitable for big organizations as compared to startups or small-level organizations.
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