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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
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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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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We've been using IBM Security Guardium for over six years because its database security technology tracks all our operations, automatically finds threats and irregularities in our database, and offers customizable rules and alerts to improve our security. Since the release of AI back in 2023, along with machine learning capabilities, it can now verify data integrity and automate data compliance across all our environments, which helped us eliminate manual tasks. Additionally, we can provide restricted access to our system to specific individuals with personalized passwords, improving our system security.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Security Guardium key lifecycle management. We need to store keys safely and It provides store and manage keys. Also It provides centrally manage the key lifecycle process. It also supports other brand devices. We use Security Guardium data protection. We use it to take secure snapshots on storage volumes to protect against any cyber attack.
FURKAN GÖKCAN | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We provide consultancy services to provide customers with the most efficiency in every aspect of this product. In Turkey, we have a customer portfolio that includes 90% of the companies that are regulated in terms of database security. In customer environment, we personally deal with GUI and cli management of Guardium, which provides solutions to issues such as database logging and alarming.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Security Guardium is a data protection platform that helps my organization to safeguard sensitive data like datawarehouses , realtime connections , vulnerability , data masking , big data , and alot of other features we use , data security in all sizes , also user friendly and fancy UI to have it all in one place.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For event analysis, it offers artificial intelligence and scanning capabilities for data anomaly investigation. Which helps finding and classifying sensitive and private data kept in the cloud or on premises very easy. And on top of that, monitoring databases and automating some tasks can also be done with it. Finally you will be given an anomaly score or how secure your database is to help you investigate the trend in your database.
February 19, 2024

Guard

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are using as db monitoring tool. Analyzing critical table manipulations, table exporting, db exporting etc.
We also thinking and working about db firewall.
We are analyzing our critical datas with using data classification tool.
Using external feed feature to follow some of our db tables.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Guardium was implemented to meet specific audit requirements of the organization. The closed system as well as reporting functionality meets the business requirements. We have over time implemented additional functionality that makes the solution bespoke for the organization. The ability to onboard MSSQL, IBM Mainframe, SAP Hana, DB2 LUW and Sybase on Solaris made it an ideal singular solution.
Brandon Lowry | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Guardium is used in our company to efficiently protect and manage the sensitive and confidential data we handle on a daily basis. One of the main ways we use IBM Guardium is to monitor and audit data access and usage activities across the organization. With this platform, we can track who accesses data, what actions are taken and when they occur. This provides complete visibility into data-related activities, allowing us to quickly detect and respond to any suspicious or unauthorized activity.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Security Guardium is used to detect internal threats in the organization, its detection process is very fast and it also looks for alternative solutions for threats. Sensitive data is often protected by minimizing threats. Provides alerts to any suspicious movement that is generated in the system and seeks to get rid of problems. It also serves to monitor and presents customizable dashboards. It's priced a little high for small businesses, but it's a price you can pay for full-featured software that's worth it.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Maximum protection tool that makes it possible to know in a timely manner where the real threats are to any data, the analysis is exact and so fast that everything is solved before it happens. IBM Security Guardium constantly monitors all data in general, detailing any event immediately, offering accurate reports with monitoring and automation that allows us to be calm since the result is clear; on the other hand, this Artificial Intelligence helps us notably throughout the organization due to the agility with which it works, ultimately obtaining excellent dividends for everyone.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Everytime we need IBM international support, it gets a long time to be solved, in most times. It tooks a long time to underrstand, resolve and we stay with the bug or issue for a long time.<br>Brazil needs a local support in order to be faster.<br>We appreciate technician insights of guardium but,Guardium System has a lot os bugs;
Telmo Fonseca | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Guardium came to meet the need for data access monitoring, including PCI scope, replacing another Tool that no longer supports our most up-to-date environment, in addition to giving us a greater possibility of monitoring with vulnerability assessment.
Abhishek Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's a solution that integrates tools that Protect the sensitive data of an organization. Different features of Guardium provide all customers need to inspect SQL Traffic and avoid data loss & also help both IT And compliance teams due to SQL inspection features and reporting tools. We don't have to take care of all SQL Traffic because Guardium also provides data classification; we can easily find the data that we want to categorize as sensitive.
September 27, 2023

Data protection solution

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Basically it helps team to monitor database activity in more secure way.
Few of the unusual activity detected earlier which took a long time to fix as the time spam of detection was higher. With this tool, it is more secure now because it is important to detect both the internal and external unauthorised things to secure application.
Anshuman Bhatnagar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use IBM Security Guardium as a database vulnerability assessment tool which will actively monitor potential threats, including insider threats at the database level. IBM Security Guardium not only checks against local compliance standards such as GDPR, PCI-DSS, CCPA, etc. but also alerts the security engineers in case of unauthorized access to the databases.

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use IBM Security Guardium for auditing and identifying preventive behavior. For us it is very important to identify and remedy access intrusions and also to identify vulnerabilities in our databases
ROHIT GOYAL | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Guardium is useful to monitor your onprem as well as on Cloud using traditional way and they have great new features to use such as Guardium Universal Connector, External S-TAP.

I like their Vulnerability Assessment feature and some very cool advanced feature like Blocking, Masking.

IBM support is very good to provide support of this product.

One of the very useful feature we use of this product is their Audit process Builder which provides audit functionality and to send the audit reports to external auditors to meet the compliance requirements.
Meena Prasad | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This software caught our attention because we noticed that it could provide us with good protection of our data; in our company, the flow of information is very active, and keeping our data vulnerable is not an option, but with IBM Security Guardium, we can manage analysis very well and protection of our data, it detects threats quickly, which allows us to have a lot of peace of mind and be sure of the functions that IBM Security Guardium offers us, since, in the 3 years that we have been using it, it has been beneficial and with notable results.
Wiliam de Faria | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As a result of the implementation of the General Data Protection Law LGPD and GDPR, we need to ensure that personal data are encrypted and monitored, in addition to allowing the process to discover these data and their vulnerabilities to guide the company, in addition to allowing the governance of these data on consumption times
Maria Coulter | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use IBM Security Guardium at Nexustek to protect our sensitive data and that of our clients in the cloud environment. The software efficiently encrypts and monitors crucial data and gives our teams an edge in mitigating threats. We also engage IBM Security Guardium to help speed up compliance activities by utilizing their ready-made regulation templates for HIPAA and PCI.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have been using this tool: IBM Security Guardium for over a year now and it is doing an immense job of protecting our highly critical data by minimizing the security threats. It makes the data monitoring pretty easy as everything is automated and gives us a proper report on a daily basis.
rajat gaur | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Security Guardium provides us great security for our data and has been used in our department for over a year. It helps us in compliance with our data security processes, and it has worked exceptionally well for us across all our environments. It is a very reliable and safe system to use.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Security Guardium is a great software being used in our organization. This is being used as a data activity monitoring tool and makes our life easier with an option to audit the activities of each individual user. Overall it is helping us to meet the compliance obligations to reduce the security threats.
Mansi Talwar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are widely using IBM Security Guardium throughout the organization since it is being ranked as the number 1 product in the data security tools. It provides security against the sensitive data of the clients and also secures the cloud-based platforms such as NoSQL, Azure databases, and Hadoop as well. It provides pre-defined templates of reports as well that can be used as per the needs.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Security Guardium is an amazing tool that is currently being used in many departments of our organization to implement security policies. This is helping us a lot in securing our confidential data and minimizing security threats. It helps us in monitoring all the data activity to detect any kind of anomalies.
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