We performed a comparison between Fortra's Vera and IBM Security Guardium Data Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Imperva, Oracle and others in Database Security."Vera encryption is the most valuable feature."
"We also use IBM Guardium to support security initiatives and compliance policies. For example, our audit area can verify if someone has access to information that they shouldn't have, for their regular job functions."
"I like the reporting mechanism. It's very good."
"We use IBM Guardium to support security initiatives and combine policies within the organization."
"The tool helps detect invalid login attempts within a specific time frame."
"Being an IBM product it really offers security integration capabilities and robust features. Over the years, it has satisfactory met the requirements of our customers which makes it a very reliable and versatile solution."
"Encryption is not straightforward, but Guardium made the setup easy for us."
"The ability to collect the data without database administers being able to modify it."
"Gathering the data works very well. "
"The additional improvement can be done as the issues are encountered."
"Additional improvement can be done as the issues are encountered."
"The main issue I have with IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is the support. It's not good."
"I would like to see streamlining of some of the agent features, some of the patches; make it a little bit more user-friendly on the documentation."
"Sometimes the performance is not good, and also sometimes we have sudden bugs causing difficulties."
"I would like to see a lot of additional reporting and analytics features. They have basic outlier detection, but I would love to see that go further, and model it after analytics tools like Splunk."
"I would like to be able to upgrade appliances within major versions without needing to rebuild the appliance."
"More predictive, using Watson AI would be good."
"Flexibility could be improved."
"IBM Guardium Data Protection is a mature product. There is a lot of encryption that is not owned by IBM and is done by a third party and is not an integral part of the solution."
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Fortra's Vera is ranked 11th in Database Security with 1 review while IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 71 reviews. Fortra's Vera is rated 9.0, while IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortra's Vera writes "Has good encryption features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Security Guardium Data Protection writes "Provides visibility, has a single console that shows all information, and collector-aggregator capabilities". Fortra's Vera is most compared with , whereas IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault, Oracle Advanced Security, DataSunrise Database Security and Vormetric Application Crypto Suite.
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