We performed a comparison between IBM Security Guardium Data Protection and Oracle Audit Vault 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."I think IMB's technical support is good."
"It sends out an immediate alert when there's suspicious activity."
"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."
"Database logging and audit functions are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable features have been how easy it is to deploy and use, as well as the comprehensive monitoring options. These are a few things that customers like most about this product."
"This is a multi-platform solution that consolidates everything and centralizes support for it."
"The solution has definitely saved us time, because if you want to monitor this kind of vast environment of different products, it's going to take a lot of time. Let's say one database server has 100 database instances running on it; I don't need to install 100 data instances, I just need to install on the one database server and that will cover all of my instances on that particular database."
"We use IBM Guardium to support security initiatives and combine policies within the organization."
"The critical event alerts and reporting features have greatly reduced loss of man hours that would have been spent on going through the whole audit event logs."
"All of the other components that make up the infrastructure in the environment including the operating system are also quite valuable."
"It has provided us with a unique opportunity to automate risk discovery."
"Technical support is perfect."
"The solution is very stable and reliable."
"It is a good product for controlling all databases. It is helpful for auditing the data. When people are doing any actions on the databases, they are recorded automatically in the vault. You can work on the collected data to find out exactly what is happening on a database. You can implement database encryption on the databases to control people's access to the database content, such as rows and tables."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Audit Vault is that it is agentless and enhanced user interface."
"A powerful, flexible solution for database traffic monitoring."
"There could be a feature to integrate and protect multiple databases. The local support services need improvements as well."
"Guardium's storage capabilities could use some improvement. I'd also like to have some better integration using digital technology or a connector."
"I would like to see AI and machine learning added in the future."
"Deployment process is very complicated as you need to now all advanced parameters. Almost not possible to figure out for yourself."
"The technical support is very poor."
"Sometimes the performance is not good, and also sometimes we have sudden bugs causing difficulties."
"Personally, I would not recommend this product."
"Performance and the ability to use resources could be improved."
"An easy, friendly user interface would be nice to have, since this would enable administrators to identify important events with a prompt response."
"I hear from many people that say IBM Guardian is better than Oracle Audit Vault when it comes to performance. IBM Guardian works transparently in the database, but Oracle Audit Vault consumes some ratios on the server."
"One feature that is missing is the ability to have a secret server that is always encrypted."
"Stability could be improved, we have had some challenges"
"Currently, you need two servers: one for Audit Vault and one for the firewall. If they can combine them into one server, it will be great because it is costly to have two servers. It will also make its installation easier. I have heard that in the new version, there will be only one server for both."
"We would like to see the ability to administer and manage the solution through Enterprise Manager 13c, and development of the dashboards that are generally missing."
"The support could improve."
"The product monitors only the database and not the operating systems."
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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 71 reviews while Oracle Audit Vault is ranked 3rd in Database Security with 28 reviews. IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2, while Oracle Audit Vault 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 Oracle Audit Vault writes "Enhanced interface, agentless, and simple setup". IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Advanced Security, DataSunrise Database Security, Vormetric Application Crypto Suite and Voltage SecureData Enterprise, whereas Oracle Audit Vault is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Trustwave DbProtect, DB Networks DBN-6300, DataSunrise Database Security and jSonar. See our IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs. Oracle Audit Vault report.
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