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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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Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Banking Company, 10,001+ employees
FURKAN GÖKCAN | TrustRadius Reviewer
FURKAN GÖKCAN
Security Engineer
Exclusive Networks (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 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 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
Usability
9
It is usable product. After firmware upgrade it can be activeted. Firmware code must be greater than 8.6 code. You can create snapshot policy. It runs schedule and automatically. The snapshot volumes are immutable. They store safely until coming expiration time. The all process works automatically. It is easy to use.
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
Usability
8
Guardium is an easier product to use than competing products, but still, most product managers on the customer and bank side have not yet fully mastered the product. Maybe it can be made simpler and more user friendly. For example, it might be nice to be able to quickly open a detailed report of an alarm seen in the Policy violation section with a single click.
February 21, 2024

Secure your clients' private information with IBM Security Guardium

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Delia Heaney
Analyst
Trinetix (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Usability
9
Due to the slow response time of support and adequate documentation, the setup process can be challenging if done for the first time. But there are enough tutorials online so this should not be a big problem. And overall it is very easy to use and reduces your workload by automating most tasks.
February 19, 2024

Guard

Verified User
Consultant in Engineering
Banking Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Usability
5
O kadar kolay değilto learn IBM Guardium Management. There are lots of menus and every one of them like an ocean. A person should spend too much time and need experimental works to learn this product.
January 08, 2024

Guardium beyond a vanilla implementation!!!

Verified User
Strategist in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Usability
6
We have Guardium implemented since version 10 and the improvement is marked in terms of usability. Developing a policy and reporting takes significant investment of time and effort to move beyond vanilla implementations.
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
Usability
9
IBM Guardium has an intuitive graphical user interface and features clear, well-organized options, allowing users to easily navigate and access functions. In addition, comprehensive documentation and support is provided to help users understand and take full advantage of all the platform's capabilities. IBM Guardium's usability not only accelerates deployment and learning, but also improves the efficiency and productivity of security teams by making it easy to effectively configure, monitor and manage data security.
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
Usability
7
This aspect of this software is not the best at any stage, both in the implementation, configuration and use in genet there are always usability difficulties, this is because it lacks a good user interface and also lacks extensive documentation that allows Learn more about this software.
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
Usability
8
This software is not the easiest to use in all work environments, each department has some difficulties accessing and managing some functions, it can be considered a complex softy, but I consider it necessary to have it in the company due to its security qualities of warm cans, it offers exactly what it promises but with a little difficulty in its configuration.
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
Usability
8
Guardium was really easy to build, regardless of individual skills but sometimes it's tricky. Due to its ease of deployment When it comes to the analysis of events, IBM Guardium has A.I. for analysis of the anomaly of data. It will help you to study the pattern of your database and provide an anomaly score for your review.
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
Usability
8
The tool is definitely easy to use, but the bunch of modules that are present in IBM Security Guardium and the interdependency makes it a little difficult to manage from an administrator standpoint. There are a lot of functionalities present in the tool which are impactful in decision-making for the management.

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
Usability
10
IBM Security Guardium has ten usability points since it has precise and very well-detailed functions to make the user experience as simple and efficient as possible, it allows very good navigation and a quick response to unexpected problems.
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
Usability
8
IBM Security Guardium simplifies plenty of operations and to expound on this I allude to the pre-built regulation templates for automating compliance workflows. It's easy and any novice would make it out just the first time.
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
Usability
8
IBM Security Guardium is a scalable solution that is fairly easy to use. Any newbie can get hold of it in a very short span of time as the features offered in this are easy to learn and deploy.
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
Usability
8
There are plenty of functionalities available which isn't very hard to understand. Once you get the right documentation, everything seems to be simple and smooth. There are features like reporting and dashboards which make everything easy to analyze and act upon.
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
Usability
8
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.
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
Usability
9
IBM Security Guardium tool is quite easy to use however the GUI can be difficult for the users who are seeing it for the first time. Hence we can say that a basic knowledge of the tool is required for the users to leverage the features of the product that it offers. Monitoring databases with the help of this tool is now very easy.
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
Usability
7
IBM Security Guardium has a bit older User Interface which needs some improvement and sometimes could be a bit complex to use. Also, the learning curve is a bit steep for a new user.
May 03, 2022

Modern user access control based on role.

Sebastian Zimmerman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sebastian Zimmerman
Project Business Analyst
Thomson Reuters (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Usability
10
From the beginning, we know how to use this software, and we have no problems configuring, installing, and implementing it. Guardium has a simple and easy-to-understand user interface, it does not require long training processes or help from technical support.
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