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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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February 19, 2024
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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

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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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FURKAN GÖKCAN | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Guardium is saving companies from regulatory sanctions.
  • It enables efficient use of time with fast reporting.
  • With VA, Sensitive Data Discovery and Masking features, Guardium does what many other products can do on its own.
February 19, 2024

Guard

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Resources (like hdd) cost reduced.
  • Seperation of duties designed well
  • Report distribution with Audit Tasks provided us efficienty
Brandon Lowry | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The consolidation of suridan's systems is progressing and this directly helps all departments.
  • Exponential growth of security by more than 30%.
  • It is gratifying to know that our ROI is very positive, this is achieved from the first year.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Excellent job with the protection of information and access control to our database.
  • Its price is high for companies with a low budget, but considering the security of the data we obtain, I can say that it is the best.
  • Few tools can have tangible results in a short time; this allows IBM to continue being the leader.
Abhishek Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Plenty of pre-written reports and queries.
  • IBM Guardium is incredibly adaptable and simple to scale—it's actually pretty resource-intensive.
  • The appliances VMware machines in our case, were pretty straight to be installed/deployed and roll-on in PROD.
Meena Prasad | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • IBM Security Guardium offers great peace of mind; the security with which it protects data is very special, keeps threats away and allows us to solve problems immediately, minimizes risks, and increases data protection to 100%.
  • It reduces manual effort since the threat detection and data protection process is very agile and automated.
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