We performed a comparison between IBM Security Guardium Data Protection and Oracle Audit Vault 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."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."
"There are different modules but the most valuable ones are firewalling and masking. Additionally, the auditing of the entire database is helpful, which includes all the activity of the database users and administrators. We can monitor everything and log as well."
"Database logging and audit functions are the most valuable features."
"The reporting side is also very, very good, especially its flexibility which allows you to tailor the reports to whatever information you want."
"It supports our audit compliance."
"We now have the ability to begin to understand how people, applications, and service accounts are interacting with data to better protect it."
"IBM Guardium Data Protection is very good at keeping your database secure."
"Guardium lets you centrally manage aggregators and collectors."
"The solution is very stable and reliable."
"This solution acts as a complete data warehouse for our audit data."
"A powerful, flexible solution for database traffic monitoring."
"It is a good product for controlling all databases. It is helpful for auditing the data. When people are doing any actions on the databases, they are recorded automatically in the vault. You can work on the collected data to find out exactly what is happening on a database. You can implement database encryption on the databases to control people's access to the database content, such as rows and tables."
"It has provided us with a unique opportunity to automate risk discovery."
"Technical support is perfect."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Audit Vault is that it is agentless and enhanced user interface."
"All of the other components that make up the infrastructure in the environment including the operating system are also quite valuable."
"The solution lacks control over database security."
"I would like to see IBM Guardium have other encryption algorithms employed."
"They could enable the out-of-the-box feature to track application user activity."
"It would be helpful, and convenient to improve the Chat support."
"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."
"Overall testing and quality need improvement. It is fairly buggy at times, so it feels like it could use additional staff on the product, testing and trying it out."
"The biggest complaint that I hear from customers and users is that using this solution requires database skills, yet it is a security and monitoring tool."
"Deployment process is very complicated as you need to now all advanced parameters. Almost not possible to figure out for yourself."
"Stability could be improved, we have had some challenges"
"The performance of Oracle Audit Vault could be improved, especially in handling large data collections and generating reports on time."
"The support could improve."
"They should simplify the integration and work with different vendors and mechanisms."
"Customized reporting is something that we are struggling with, and it is quite tough for us."
"We would like to see the ability to administer and manage the solution through Enterprise Manager 13c, and development of the dashboards that are generally missing."
"One feature that is missing is the ability to have a secret server that is always encrypted."
"Currently, you need two servers: one for Audit Vault and one for the firewall. If they can combine them into one server, it will be great because it is costly to have two servers. It will also make its installation easier. I have heard that in the new version, there will be only one server for both."
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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 71 reviews while Oracle Audit Vault is ranked 3rd in Database Security with 28 reviews. IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2, while Oracle Audit Vault is rated 8.0. 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 Oracle Audit Vault writes "Enhanced interface, agentless, and simple setup". IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Advanced Security, DataSunrise Database Security, Vormetric Application Crypto Suite and Voltage SecureData Enterprise, whereas Oracle Audit Vault is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Trustwave DbProtect, DB Networks DBN-6300, DataSunrise Database Security and jSonar. See our IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs. Oracle Audit Vault report.
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