We performed a comparison between IBM Security Guardium Data Protection and Vormetric Application Crypto Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Imperva, Oracle and others in Database Security."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."
"Setting up Guardium was easy and straightforward."
"Gathering the data works very well. "
"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."
"The product has proven to be flexible"
"We are using it to do a lot of data discovery from a data classification for structured data."
"Security policy enforcement of policy-based encryption and centralized encryption key management allows us to maintain data in a secure environment."
"The most valuable feature for me, in my role as systems DBA, is the expediting of internal and external audits."
"Transfer encryption is a great feature of Crypto Suite."
"I would like to see a lot of additional reporting and analytics features. They have basic outlier detection, but I would love to see that go further, and model it after analytics tools like Splunk."
"There could be a feature to integrate and protect multiple databases. The local support services need improvements as well."
"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."
"An area for improvement would be the user interface - currently, it takes around two to three months to become comfortable using it."
"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."
"Performance and the ability to use resources could be improved."
"Flexibility could be improved."
"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."
"Could be more agent-led with options for simplifying implementation."
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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 70 reviews while Vormetric Application Crypto Suite is ranked 7th in Data Masking with 1 review. IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2, while Vormetric Application Crypto Suite 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 Vormetric Application Crypto Suite writes "Very user friendly with good security features including transfer encryption". IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault, Oracle Advanced Security, DataSunrise Database Security and IBM InfoSphere Optim Data Privacy, whereas Vormetric Application Crypto Suite is most compared with Voltage SecureData Enterprise and Protegrity Data Security.
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IBM is reselling Vormetric. IBM Guardium Data Protection includes Vormetric as part of the Data Protection Family.