We performed a comparison between Imperva SecureSphere Database Security and Informatica Persistent Data Masking based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Imperva, Oracle and others in Database Security."The performance of the solution is good."
"The audit feature is great. It is totally encrypted."
"Ability to send event monitoring and administrative activities."
"The functionality is very useable and easy to understand."
"Currently, we have audit features for auditing databases, for example, granular auditing, which we really enjoy. We've been using it to check what users do."
"The tool's pricing is flexible and affordable for small and medium enterprises."
"We use it for database security, vulnerability analysis, discovery, and handling requests from applications and users."
"The cyber intelligence feature is the most valuable."
"Informatica Persistent Data Masking can mask production data for different users, ensuring that only authorized individuals can access sensitive information."
"The most valuable features are the structure masking and platform masking."
"The most valuable feature is data discovery. This is the most exciting feature for all of the banks."
"Informatica is user-friendly, stable, and scalable. These three aspects are the most valuable for us. If we can make it work well with the CRM, we can continue or try again this year to complete that part of the project. I am confident that this kind of solution is what we need because we have a third-party resource that works in the development."
"Informatica provides a comprehensive solution for on-the-fly or real-time data masking."
"I would like to see improvement in the integration part of the tool. This should be an easy process."
"Overall, it's a very good product but they could do with some modifications log-wise."
"Its reporting can be improved. The reporting feature is currently not good enough for our clients."
"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."
"The GUI is bad."
"The GUI for this solution could use some improvement."
"Reporting could be improved."
"It is quite expensive. I would prefer a lower price."
"Informatica should simplify the rules for setting classifications and user access management permissions. It's too complex to define, configure, and make work."
"I have encountered some issues using the substitution, which is one of the techniques of data masking."
"Once the data is masked, we won't be able to reverse it back to its original value."
"Informatica's support understands the solution, but they lack the experience we need for our use case. That was one thing that we prioritized when we started searching for this kind of solution."
"The data discovery isn't that good yet for Salesforce. We have another tool that we use for this. It may be a problem because Salesforce on the cloud."
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Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is ranked 2nd in Database Security with 52 reviews while Informatica Persistent Data Masking is ranked 10th in Data Masking with 5 reviews. Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is rated 8.2, while Informatica Persistent Data Masking is rated 7.8. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Informatica Persistent Data Masking writes "Enables secure data protection during testing and controlled access to sensitive information". Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is most compared with IBM Security Guardium Data Protection, Oracle Audit Vault, DataSunrise Database Security, Trustwave DbProtect and jSonar, whereas Informatica Persistent Data Masking is most compared with Delphix, IBM InfoSphere Optim, Protegrity Data Security, IBM Security Guardium Data Protection and Oracle GoldenGate.
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