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.
"Satisfies audit requests, to give us an idea if anybody is accessing our privileged user IDs without our knowledge."
"Its ability to find data."
"Efficiency is key and IBM Guardium provides information in a heartbeat, but protects the data with military grade encryption."
"The product has proven to be flexible"
"The purpose of EBM Guardium is to monitor database activity and who is accessing it. This is the most valuable feature."
"Being an IBM product it really offers security integration capabilities and robust features. Over the years, it has satisfactory met the requirements of our customers which makes it a very reliable and versatile solution."
"It does not require our involvement to run it. It runs in the background and the people that do the reporting do so. The reports go to the directors who are in charge of the various data areas. It's pretty clean. Clearly there is some setup, but after you get it set up it just goes."
"The most valuable feature I have found is the performance of client monitoring. The other competitors are unable to do this."
"The company focuses on and has a passion for security."
"Database reporting features are valuable to us."
"The performance of the solution is good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the database security policy."
"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."
"We use it for database security, vulnerability analysis, discovery, and handling requests from applications and users."
"The discovery module provides good visibility."
"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."
"Needs nore cloud support."
"The one thing that I would like to see improved, but I don't think it's going to be in the next release, is its reporting capabilities. I think that's been offloaded to another third-party product that I think IBM actually endorses for that."
"The technical support is very poor."
"More automation, user guides, and tips would make this solution better."
"Sometimes the connectors to the databases need to be manually updated and we have to configure them again, which is something that should be improved."
"The solution lacks control over database security."
"I have already mentioned to IBM that a primary need is to improve the number of records in the reports above 65,535."
"Initially it did not have support external applications like, say, Tableau, ServiceNow, Remedy, and the like. They have started growing into it, but I would like to have more and more integration with outside applications."
"The firewall features are not very strong and should be improved."
"It would be better to update the solution by using a GUI that guides me, rather than through a CLI."
"I would like to see integration such that there is support for different kinds of environments, such as on-premises versus cloud."
"Once we read the activity logs on the platform, we cannot open them anywhere else as they are stored in a proprietary format."
"The solution needs local support."
"Imperva needs to improve their cloud capabilities."
"Sometimes the reports are cumbersome, and you have to drill down to get more information."
"Reporting could be improved."
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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 70 reviews while Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is ranked 2nd in Database Security with 52 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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