Guardium Overview
September 23, 2025
Guardium Overview
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- IBM Security Guardium Data Protection
- IBM Security Guardium Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)
- IBM Security Guardium Data Encryption (GDE)
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Guardium
IBM Guardium provides us with the ability discover and identify data. Once we discover data, we have the ability to control access and lock data down. This is extremely valuable based on the rate that data is growing.
Pros
- Discovery & Classify Data
- Data Encryption
Cons
- User Interface
- Pricing (lower price)
- The ability to discover and classify data is a huge time savings
- Pre Built templates for PCI / HIPPA are huge time savings
1) Discover & Classification of Data
2) Pre-defined templates
3) Reporting / Audit
4) Unlimited Data Sources
2) Pre-defined templates
3) Reporting / Audit
4) Unlimited Data Sources
We now have a complete overview of our entire data landscape. I now have access to our 5 ws of data:
1( Who? 2) What? 3) When ?4) Where ?5) Why ?
1( Who? 2) What? 3) When ?4) Where ?5) Why ?
Guardium excels in its broad data protection and compliance monitoring, while Imperva offers good cloud data security. Guardium seems to be a much more robust platform. IBM is also investing heavily in AI for Guardium.
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?
Yes
Did implementation of IBM Guardium go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy IBM Guardium again?
Yes
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