IBM Guardium - Data security the right way
October 08, 2025

IBM Guardium - Data security the right way

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review

Modules Used

  • IBM Guardium DDR (Data Detection and Response)
  • IBM Security Guardium Data Protection
  • IBM Guardium AI Security
  • IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager
  • IBM Security Guardium Vulnerability Assessment

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Guardium

Centralized data security, monitoring and logging in hybrid cloud environments.

Pros

  • Session handling to protect data access
  • Logging centralized and coherently
  • Giving actionable reports and understanding of data flows

Cons

  • a modern modern look for the ui
  • more customizable reports
  • Multi tenency
The session handling for accessing databases and understanding user activity.
Different databases have different securitty and logging features, with IBM Guardium you can centralize and harmonize it in a way that helps the entire environment.
Data based specialzed monitoring. Actually combining both gave great monitoring capabilities.

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 a stable product with sophisticated implementation that gives flexibility in deployment with aggregators/collectors and agents. If I have data in the cloud (sap ryze) I can protect it access no matter he cloud provider capabilities

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