We performed a comparison between Fortra's Vera and IBM Security Guardium Data Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Imperva, Oracle and others in Database Security."Vera encryption is the most valuable feature."
"Ease of deployment is a valuable feature."
"One of the most valuable features is the accelerator. It has a predefined report for PCI SOX compliance and other compliances."
"The possible number of databases and database servers which can be monitored by Guardium is high. For me, this is a differentiator of IBM."
"IBM Guardium Data Protection has better integration options than most of the leading competitors on the market, and the price is always better."
"The ability to collect the data without database administers being able to modify it."
"Ability to define reports based on SQL query, especially when you have complex report criteria."
"The platform provides data protection from internal and external threats."
"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 additional improvement can be done as the issues are encountered."
"Additional improvement can be done as the issues are encountered."
"Can't be used for a NoSQL database, which is limiting."
"The backup and recovery is very resource-hungry and requires a huge amount of storage capacity."
"One of the limitations that everyone who uses Guardium knows is its ability for back-end reporting. The ability to collect it sometimes is easier than the ability to retrieve it, use it, or give a good representation of it for incidence response or questions which come from the different people who want to use the data."
"We have had some issues with patches breaking things unexpectedly in our environments."
"I would like to be able to upgrade appliances within major versions without needing to rebuild the appliance."
"I would like to see IBM Guardium have other encryption algorithms employed."
"It was difficult implementing it, configuring it, getting it up and running and in production. However, since then, I believe it has stabilized."
"There could be a feature to integrate and protect multiple databases. The local support services need improvements as well."
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Fortra's Vera is ranked 11th in Database Security with 1 review while IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 70 reviews. Fortra's Vera is rated 9.0, while IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortra's Vera writes "Has good encryption features". 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". Fortra's Vera is most compared with , 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.
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