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."The most valuable feature for me, in my role as systems DBA, is the expediting of internal and external audits."
"We have integrated IBM Guardium with IBM Watson Curator. They access Curator to identify and correlate other actions the user is doing to determine if this is a legitimate action or not."
"The tech support is very knowledgeable."
"Easy to set up data activity monitoring solution that provides competent technical support. Scalable, stable, and has good performance."
"Efficiency is key and IBM Guardium provides information in a heartbeat, but protects the data with military grade encryption."
"It has automated a bunch of manual tasks, giving us insights into activities that we would not otherwise be able to capture."
"You could easily throw it onto a VM or add additional hardware. One central manager supports about a hundred managed units, so scalability is excellent."
"Guardium lets you centrally manage aggregators and collectors."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Audit Vault is that it is agentless and enhanced user interface."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is that it can help us secure our databases."
"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."
"Our client was scheduled to take a year and a half to set up compliance, but by deploying this product they were able to do the compliance reports within three months."
"Out-of-the-box policies ensure our compliance with standards like SOX, ISO 27001, and so on."
"It has provided us with a unique opportunity to automate risk discovery."
"Our clients can see all of their past actions or the wrong activity done on the network. We can load the diagnostics for the business."
"Technical support is perfect."
"It was difficult implementing it, configuring it, getting it up and running and in production. However, since then, I believe it has stabilized."
"We've had some issues recently that we're working through, on the agent software that runs on the databases."
"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."
"An improvement would be to make the pricing relative in terms of regions."
"I would like to be able to upgrade appliances within major versions without needing to rebuild the appliance."
"Performance and the ability to use resources could be improved."
"An area for improvement would be the user interface - currently, it takes around two to three months to become comfortable using it."
"Overall testing and quality need improvement. It is fairly buggy at times, so it feels like it could use additional staff on the product, testing and trying it out."
"One feature that is missing is the ability to have a secret server that is always encrypted."
"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."
"Stability could be improved, we have had some challenges"
"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."
"They should simplify the integration and work with different vendors and mechanisms."
"The support could improve."
"The product monitors only the database and not the operating systems."
"Some of our customers were asking about latency when the application wants to get to the database."
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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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