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.
"Security policy enforcement of policy-based encryption and centralized encryption key management allows us to maintain data in a secure environment."
"The most valuable features are the reporting and data-level access control."
"IBM Guardium Data Protection is very good at keeping your database secure."
"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."
"We now have the ability to begin to understand how people, applications, and service accounts are interacting with data to better protect it."
"It provides us regulatory compliance proof and evidence for audit."
"Our ability to see when users are accessing sensitive data."
"Database logging and audit functions are the most valuable features."
"The technical support for Imperva is super, super, super."
"The audit feature is great. It is totally encrypted."
"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."
"It has a lot of different components that cover the needs of our customers."
"The most valuable feature is the Data Masking."
"Flexible reporting allows for customization that keeps the admins from having to interact with system automation."
"The cyber intelligence feature is the most valuable."
"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."
"Can't be used for a NoSQL database, which is limiting."
"Right now, we're in the development phase for IBM Guardium Data Protection, so I don't have any recommendations about additional features and room for improvement in the solution. We're very excited to work on IBM Guardium Data Protection because we are new to the solution, and we're still exploring product features. We're very excited about integrations and use case creation, and it's only after six to eight months that I'll be able to share my recommendations in terms of additional features the solution should have. We did find some difficulty in deploying IBM Guardium Data Protection here in Pakistan because of the lack of resources."
"An improvement would be to make the pricing relative in terms of regions."
"The technical support is very poor."
"There could be a feature to integrate and protect multiple databases. The local support services need improvements as well."
"We've had some issues recently that we're working through, on the agent software that runs on the databases."
"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."
"Guardium's storage capabilities could use some improvement. I'd also like to have some better integration using digital technology or a connector."
"I have worked with IBM before, and I prefer its ease of deployment and management. Imperva SecureSphere Database Security has tricky deployment, whereas IBM's deployment is straightforward because of the UI."
"I'd like to see some sort of solution for storage."
"Sometimes the reports are cumbersome, and you have to drill down to get more information."
"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."
"The updates could be better."
"I would like to see integration such that there is support for different kinds of environments, such as on-premises versus cloud."
"The solution needs local support."
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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 71 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 Voltage SecureData Enterprise, 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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