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.
"Efficiency is key and IBM Guardium provides information in a heartbeat, but protects the data with military grade encryption."
"The most valuable feature I have found is the performance of client monitoring. The other competitors are unable to do this."
"Our internal audit is keeping an eye out, and making sure that we're in compliance. Having the Guardium solution and its reporting helps us get through that process a lot more quickly and efficiently."
"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."
"We also use IBM Guardium to support security initiatives and compliance policies. For example, our audit area can verify if someone has access to information that they shouldn't have, for their regular job functions."
"It supports our audit compliance."
"Supports security initiatives and ensures compliance policies."
"It's made database monitoring more visible to the business, creating more conversations about how we should do it better."
"Flexible reporting allows for customization that keeps the admins from having to interact with system automation."
"They have very good documentation and knowledgebase resources that add to the depth of their support."
"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 technical support for Imperva is super, super, super."
"The discovery module provides good visibility."
"The integration is great."
"The tool happens to be very intelligent when it comes to processing policies and sounding alerts. It allows us to implement policies and measure actions against them, raising alerts accordingly."
"This is a stable product."
"It will not go as fast as you want. "
"The solution lacks control over database security."
"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."
"Performance and the ability to use resources could be improved."
"An improvement would be to make the pricing relative in terms of regions."
"The documentation could be better."
"The price of this solution is quite high for smaller organizations, so they should release a version that is affordable for small and medium-sized businesses."
"I would like to see IBM Guardium have other encryption algorithms employed."
"Imperva needs to improve their cloud capabilities."
"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."
"The updates could be better."
"It would be better to update the solution by using a GUI that guides me, rather than through a CLI."
"They can maybe look at its pricing model. Its pricing could be cheaper for the African countries or developing economies."
"I would like to see integration such that there is support for different kinds of environments, such as on-premises versus cloud."
"Imperva SecureSphere Database Security can improve something in all the versions I have used."
"SecureSphere activity log can be used with Imperva CounterBreach in an effort to protect enterprise data from theft and loss caused."
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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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