We performed a comparison between ACF2 and IBM Security Guardium Data Protection 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 NOACCESS by default is another very good feature. Also, access rules are straightforward, and easy to understand."
"I love their support. The support is great. They are number one."
"Excellent real-time reporting that saves time and resources."
"Logging and monitoring are most valuable. It is for the mainframe environment, and it is at the forefront for security and resilience."
"We use this tool to quickly assign privileges to different users as soon as they come in."
"The solution supports a lot of databases."
"From the perspective of analysis and prevention, this product is pretty accurate."
"It provides a comprehensive security for databases, both on-prem and on the cloud. Among the advanced features we use automatic backups, DR."
"It's one of the first to encrypt DB2 databases."
"The most valuable feature is using the capture operation mode “S-TAP/K-TAP agent”, because all activities in the database are captured, including direct access to the database server by privileged users. This is useful because, even if the database server logs were deleted, the Guardium Collector has already stored such data to enable traceability of access."
"I like the reporting mechanism. It's very good."
"Our main focus for IBM Guardium is to support security initiatives and compliance policies within our organization. We use the DPD product for monitoring, especially for GDPR, SOX regulations and, of course, the vulnerability assessment that we use to make sure we're keeping up with our patches, making sure things are configured, making sure we're following the best practices."
"Ease of deployment is a valuable feature."
"Reporting can sometimes include false positives."
"It needs longer rules. The max rule is 32K."
"I would like my team and me to be able to use simple browsers, like Chrome, to be able to access mainframe data and provision users using the browser."
"They can work on its ability to work in a distributed environment. It's a mainframe product. As many companies move to the cloud, depending on what cloud models they choose, such as a public, hybrid, or private cloud, it should be deployable. I am not sure if it can be deployed on those platforms. It has been there since the '50s or '60s, and it's still scalable. It has survived all these years, and it's scalable to many platforms, but I don't know about the cloud."
"More predictive, using Watson AI would be good."
"It would be helpful, and convenient to improve the Chat support."
"I would like to see IBM Guardium have other encryption algorithms employed."
"Flexibility could be improved."
"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."
"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."
"It needs an integration with Optum."
"I have already mentioned to IBM that a primary need is to improve the number of records in the reports above 65,535."
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ACF2 is ranked 17th in Database Security while IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 70 reviews. ACF2 is rated 9.0, while IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of ACF2 writes "A reliable, scalable product for security and auditing of our mainframe environment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Security Guardium Data Protection writes "Provides visibility, has a single console that shows all information, and collector-aggregator capabilities". ACF2 is most compared with IBM Resource Access Control Facility and Top Secret, whereas IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault, Oracle Advanced Security, DataSunrise Database Security and Vormetric Application Crypto Suite. See our ACF2 vs. IBM Security Guardium Data Protection report.
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