We performed a comparison between ACF2 and IBM Security Guardium Data Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Database Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We use this tool to quickly assign privileges to different users as soon as they come in."
"Excellent real-time reporting that saves time and resources."
"Logging and monitoring are most valuable. It is for the mainframe environment, and it is at the forefront for security and resilience."
"The NOACCESS by default is another very good feature. Also, access rules are straightforward, and easy to understand."
"I love their support. The support is great. They are number one."
"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."
"Guardium lets you centrally manage aggregators and collectors."
"Has a great Big Data Intelligence 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."
"Good data encryption and data masking features."
"The vulnerability assessment is a valuable feature."
"IBM Guardium Data Protection has better integration options than most of the leading competitors on the market, and the price is always better."
"The most valuable feature is the GUI, the interface. It also interfaces well with REST API, if you want to automate some of the commands."
"They can work on its ability to work in a distributed environment. It's a mainframe product. As many companies move to the cloud, depending on what cloud models they choose, such as a public, hybrid, or private cloud, it should be deployable. I am not sure if it can be deployed on those platforms. It has been there since the '50s or '60s, and it's still scalable. It has survived all these years, and it's scalable to many platforms, but I don't know about the cloud."
"It needs longer rules. The max rule is 32K."
"I would like my team and me to be able to use simple browsers, like Chrome, to be able to access mainframe data and provision users using the browser."
"Reporting can sometimes include false positives."
"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."
"More predictive, using Watson AI would be good."
"There could be a feature to integrate and protect multiple databases. The local support services need improvements as well."
"It needs an integration with Optum."
"I would like to see streamlining of some of the agent features, some of the patches; make it a little bit more user-friendly on the documentation."
"It will not go as fast as you want. "
"They could enable the out-of-the-box feature to track application user activity."
"An area for improvement would be the user interface - currently, it takes around two to three months to become comfortable using it."
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ACF2 is ranked 17th in Database Security while IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 71 reviews. ACF2 is rated 9.0, while IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of ACF2 writes "A reliable, scalable product for security and auditing of our mainframe environment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Security Guardium Data Protection writes "Provides visibility, has a single console that shows all information, and collector-aggregator capabilities". ACF2 is most compared with IBM Resource Access Control Facility and Top Secret, whereas IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault, Oracle Advanced Security, DataSunrise Database Security and Vormetric Application Crypto Suite. See our ACF2 vs. IBM Security Guardium Data Protection report.
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