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.
"Easy to set up data activity monitoring solution that provides competent technical support. Scalable, stable, and has good performance."
"I rate Guardium 10 out of 10 for data activity monitoring and nine for vulnerability assessment. It's easy to implement and does its job. But I would rate it seven out of 10 in terms of advanced features."
"From the perspective of analysis and prevention, this product is pretty accurate."
"It supports our audit compliance."
"We have integrated IBM Guardium with IBM Watson Curator. They access Curator to identify and correlate other actions the user is doing to determine if this is a legitimate action or not."
"It protects sensitive data and blocks unauthorized access to the data."
"The tech support is very knowledgeable."
"I think IMB's technical support is good."
"The functionality is very useable and easy to understand."
"Imperva's most valuable features are ease of use and log correlation. I also like the ability to trace activity from the host machine to the server access, the user details, and the exact query that they executed. If a database administrator or application process executes a query on the database, people know exactly what was executed, including all the variables."
"Flexible reporting allows for customization that keeps the admins from having to interact with system automation."
"The beauty of it is that it provides segregation of duties. Typically, in the traditional environment, DBAs administer the database, and they have too much access. We are in the process of implementing other Oracle solutions, and it brings some kind of segregation. Just because someone is a DBA does not mean that he or she should have access to all of the data. Some of the data can be masked so that privacy and security are enhanced, especially when it is customer data for an institution like a bank."
"This is a stable product."
"The tool's pricing is flexible and affordable for small and medium enterprises."
"The most valuable features of Imperva SecureSphere Database Security are vulnerability assessment, enrichment security policy, and security"
"The company focuses on and has a passion for security."
"An improvement would be to make the pricing relative in terms of regions."
"The solution lacks control over database security."
"I would like to see AI and machine learning added in the future."
"Initial setup is very complex. Once you start interacting with people's databases, they get very hesitant. Then, the amount of social tasks to socialize the solution ensuring people are comfortable with it became a much heavier lift."
"Needs nore cloud support."
"We've had some issues recently that we're working through, on the agent software that runs on the databases."
"I have already mentioned to IBM that a primary need is to improve the number of records in the reports above 65,535."
"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."
"Imperva needs to improve their cloud capabilities."
"I'd like to see some sort of solution for storage."
"Some cloud versions are not supported by the agent."
"They can maybe look at its pricing model. Its pricing could be cheaper for the African countries or developing economies."
"Imperva SecureSphere Database Security could improve the database defense feature called camouflage. This feature was responsible for the data mask but now it does not work well and we need another solution. All our banks have teams that are regarded with care and they need to mask sensitive data in order to provide testing to developers."
"Database security from the access management perspective could be better."
"Improvements can be made in data enrichment and enhancing the GUI (Graphical User Interface) for a better user experience."
"It is quite expensive. I would prefer a lower price."
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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 16 reviews while Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is ranked 2nd in Database Security with 12 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 IBM InfoSphere Optim Data Privacy, 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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