We performed a comparison between IBM Security Guardium Data Protection and jSonar based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Database Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It supports our audit compliance."
"The most valuable feature I have found is the performance of client monitoring. The other competitors are unable to do this."
"It's one of the first to encrypt DB2 databases."
"It has automated a bunch of manual tasks, giving us insights into activities that we would not otherwise be able to capture."
"It provides us regulatory compliance proof and evidence for audit."
"The product has proven to be flexible"
"We now have the ability to begin to understand how people, applications, and service accounts are interacting with data to better protect it."
"It's made database monitoring more visible to the business, creating more conversations about how we should do it better."
"It allows us to run models against it and do reports against it without understanding the different database technologies."
"The centralization of the data is probably the most useful feature because we span multiple database technologies. We also find the GBDI portion of it very helpful."
"Right now we're having some issues where it's using a high CPU, we don't know why. So, better testing before the product is ready would help."
"The biggest complaint that I hear from customers and users is that using this solution requires database skills, yet it is a security and monitoring tool."
"Initially it did not have support external applications like, say, Tableau, ServiceNow, Remedy, and the like. They have started growing into it, but I would like to have more and more integration with outside applications."
"It will not go as fast as you want. "
"An area for improvement would be the user interface - currently, it takes around two to three months to become comfortable using it."
"The technical support is very poor."
"One of the limitations that everyone who uses Guardium knows is its ability for back-end reporting. The ability to collect it sometimes is easier than the ability to retrieve it, use it, or give a good representation of it for incidence response or questions which come from the different people who want to use the data."
"The price of this solution is quite high for smaller organizations, so they should release a version that is affordable for small and medium-sized businesses."
"It can be simplified as it is a little complicated."
"It would be better if it were more user-friendly. Right now, it's a little bit of a complicated product to use. Another problem that we have is with encrypted traffic on Oracle. This is because it requires a database outage. That's a pain in the butt because you're monitoring critical systems, and they don't like outages."
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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 71 reviews while jSonar is ranked 8th in Database Security with 2 reviews. IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2, while jSonar is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Security Guardium Data Protection writes "Provides visibility, has a single console that shows all information, and collector-aggregator capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of jSonar writes "Serves as a data lake for database activity and helps to centralize and normalize data". IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault, Oracle Advanced Security, DataSunrise Database Security and Protegrity Data Security, whereas jSonar is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security and Oracle Audit Vault. See our IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs. jSonar report.
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