IBM Guardium is a best value and reliable Data Security strategy
June 11, 2025

IBM Guardium is a best value and reliable Data Security strategy

John Jairo Guaña Morales | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Modules Used

  • IBM Guardium DDR (Data Detection and Response)
  • IBM Security Guardium Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)
  • IBM Security Guardium Data Encryption (GDE)
  • IBM Guardium Discover and Classify
  • IBM Security Guardium Vulnerability Assessment
  • IBM Guardium AI Security
  • IBM Guardium Quantum Safe
  • IBM Security Guardium Data Protection

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Guardium

I'm a business partner and use IBM Security Guardium for demos and learning, with multiple databases, motors and brands using demo policies and rules, also the UBA and Threats analytics modules are excellent and better than other manufacturers. I have used the other Guardium portfolio products and they are a good integration strategy.

Pros

  • Database Activity Monitoring
  • Data Redaction
  • Firewall terminate

Cons

  • Best manage of cloud databases
  • Best performance with windows and sql server
  • Besy sql server redaction manage
  • Timesaving
  • Security
  • Increase personal productivity
I think that the most valuable capabilities of Guardium Data Redaction, Guardium Vulnerability Assessment, Guardium Data Discovery and Classification, Guardium Insights, give a strong integration and database security strategy covering all data silos and repositories even in cloud and on premise databases. I recommend implementing all modules to give a 100% database security coverage.
With the native monitoring and security methods don't give all methods of monitoring, access control, data redaction and vulnerability remediation I can do a full security approach, Native monitoring is not enough clear and proative, but IBM Guardium give you alerts, analitycs, behavior monitoring that allow you to see all the traffic that can compromise your data.
IBM Security Guardium is better with its compatibility and integration methods and compatibility matrix, the other products don't cover all the database motors that IBM Guardium can do, regarding to brand, versions and editions of the database motors, IBM support and licensing methods are more simple and reliable than the others.

Do you think IBM Guardium delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM Guardium's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Guardium live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of IBM Guardium go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM Guardium again?

Yes

IBM Guardium is suitable for database security in most scenarios. I do not recommend IBM Guardium with EXSTAP configuration, the RedHat OpenShift cluster is expensive but STAP, Univeral Connector and data streams monitoring methods are good and enough to a good database security strategy, its vulnerability assessment and threat analytics modules give great monitoring and security methods.

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