We performed a comparison between IBM Security Guardium Data Protection and Trustwave DbProtect 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.
"Encryption is not straightforward, but Guardium made the setup easy for us."
"Provides a unified key management system to help simplify encryption key management."
"It's one of the first to encrypt DB2 databases."
"It has been very difficult to analyze all the network traffic with something else. Guardium provides that feature, it's heuristic. So we have rule-based algorithms in place to take care of that."
"Compliance Quick Start – Quick, GUI, step-by-step guide to automate compliance and give the customer a quick ROI."
"The most valuable features are the reporting and data-level access control."
"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."
"Accelerators is one of the big functions they have out there. It gives you canned reports that you don't have to make yourself, they're out there by being part of the patch. You just have to fill your information in to some of the already built groups, for your environment, and it automates a lot of that. That has definitely helped improve things."
"This solution helps our clients to monitor their database use, and detect violations of the policy."
"Transfer and vulnerability scanning are the most valuable features of this product."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that you can have a good view which is provided with a proper division of all your databases, which you can see in Trustwave DbProtect."
"The main issue I have with IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is the support. It's not good."
"There are features like end-to-end and S-TAP mapping, and the ability to install policies for your configuration builder. They're not there, but we'd like to see them in the next version."
"The documentation could be better."
"Needs easier integration with custom applications."
"Needs nore cloud support."
"They could enable the out-of-the-box feature to track application user activity."
"I would like them to support cloud services."
"Sometimes the performance is not good, and also sometimes we have sudden bugs causing difficulties."
"We have not been able to integrate this product with a lot of standard incident response solutions, so an open API would help in this regard."
"I have seen that the tool's installation phase has some problems regarding the versions, specifically the version of SQL."
"The product does not have encryption or data masking."
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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 71 reviews while Trustwave DbProtect is ranked 4th in Database Security with 6 reviews. IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2, while Trustwave DbProtect 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 Trustwave DbProtect writes "A tool that offers a proper view and division of all databases while also allowing users to do continuous monitoring". IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault, Oracle Advanced Security, DataSunrise Database Security and Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting, whereas Trustwave DbProtect is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault and Trustwave AppDetectivePRO. See our IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs. Trustwave DbProtect report.
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