We performed a comparison between IBM Guardium Data Protection and Imperva SecureSphere Database Security based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: IBM Guardium Data Protection and Imperva SecureSphere Database Security have a similar user rating regarding ease of deployment, pricing, and service and support. In terms of features, IBM Guardium Data Protection reviewers felt the software wasn’t user-friendly. In contrast, Imperva SecureSphere Database Security reviewers felt the reporting feature needed improvement.
"The purpose of EBM Guardium is to monitor database activity and who is accessing it. This is the most valuable feature."
"Ability to define reports based on SQL query, especially when you have complex report criteria."
"We now have the ability to begin to understand how people, applications, and service accounts are interacting with data to better protect it."
"It tests security to support SOX compliance."
"I think it scales pretty well. It can run on most of the database platforms currently out there. That is something we really like as a feature, because we try to hit everything in our environment to make sure we're meeting those regulations."
"The most valuable feature is the GUI, the interface. It also interfaces well with REST API, if you want to automate some of the commands."
"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."
"The tool helps detect invalid login attempts within a specific time frame."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"Flexible reporting allows for customization that keeps the admins from having to interact with system automation."
"The functionality is very useable and easy to understand."
"They have very good documentation and knowledgebase resources that add to the depth of their support."
"The technical support for Imperva is super, super, super."
"It has a user-friendly interface. It is a stable and scalable product."
"This solution has helped secure our Internet-based services, protecting us against DoS and other types of web-based attacks."
"Database reporting features are valuable to us."
"Needs easier integration with custom applications."
"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."
"Setup can be complex. The documentation is in so many different locations, and a lot of times we have to leverage support and higher level resources to figure out the right steps to take."
"Since we are resellers we do not have enough information about the technical aspects and the areas of improvement. However, one consistent report that we receive from our customers is that IBM does not offer timely support due to the size of the organisation. It would be great if they could improve their response time."
"The most important requirements for us are integration with new database solutions and the ability to manage things like Jailbreak or something like that. Its reduction feature can also be improved. It has a functionality called reduction, which is like masking data, but it is just a replacement of characters. Sometimes the customer needs more than this. It would be good if it was more advanced or complete. We also have a problem with this solution because the IBM aggregator isn't working very well. IBM has created big data intelligence for Guardium, and occasionally, customers need three or four months of data, but they can't run it from the collectors. It can have a better dashboard and more pre-defined use cases for those customers who don't have any idea about data protection or don't have expert personnel in this area. For example, they can include five use cases for banks and five use cases for retail."
"It would be helpful, and convenient to improve the Chat support."
"Flexibility could be improved."
"I would like to see IBM Guardium have other encryption algorithms employed."
"The firewall features are not very strong and should be improved."
"Overall, it's a very good product but they could do with some modifications log-wise."
"I'd like to see some sort of solution for storage."
"The only challenge I see is that SecureSphere is deployed on servers or databases which are held on physical infrastructure. However, there are databases which are hosted on cloud platforms and Imperva has a separate tool altogether for that, not SecureSphere."
"It is very expensive. Its price can be better."
"The agent does not monitor databases in the containers."
"The interface is not user-friendly."
"Its reporting can be improved. The reporting feature is currently not good enough for our clients."
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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 71 reviews while Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is ranked 2nd in Database Security with 53 reviews. IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2, while Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is rated 8.2. 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 Imperva SecureSphere Database Security writes "The fine-grained auditing available on the platform makes life easier and helps explain anything happening in your database". IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Oracle Audit Vault, Oracle Advanced Security, DataSunrise Database Security, Vormetric Application Crypto Suite and Voltage SecureData Enterprise, whereas Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is most compared with Oracle Audit Vault, DataSunrise Database Security, Trustwave DbProtect, jSonar and Imperva DDoS. See our IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs. Imperva SecureSphere Database Security report.
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