IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting comparison

"Ability to define reports based on SQL query, especially when you have complex report criteria."

"Supports security initiatives and ensures compliance policies."

"Guardium does a great job of capturing data and having the ability of trying to pull it out and make sense of it. Using it for business applications is its biggest capability."

"Setting up Guardium was easy and straightforward."

"The most valuable feature is using the capture operation mode “S-TAP/K-TAP agent”, because all activities in the database are captured, including direct access to the database server by privileged users. This is useful because, even if the database server logs were deleted, the Guardium Collector has already stored such data to enable traceability of access."

"It has been very difficult to analyze all the network traffic with something else. Guardium provides that feature, it's heuristic. So we have rule-based algorithms in place to take care of that."

"Has a great Big Data Intelligence feature."

"Our main focus for IBM Guardium is to support security initiatives and compliance policies within our organization. We use the DPD product for monitoring, especially for GDPR, SOX regulations and, of course, the vulnerability assessment that we use to make sure we're keeping up with our patches, making sure things are configured, making sure we're following the best practices."

"This solution delivers the value that it is supposed to deliver."

"I would like to see a lot of additional reporting and analytics features. They have basic outlier detection, but I would love to see that go further, and model it after analytics tools like Splunk."

"More predictive, using Watson AI would be good."

"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."

"I have already mentioned to IBM that a primary need is to improve the number of records in the reports above 65,535."

"I'd like to them make sure that the data sources can be more easily managed, because some of them are tied to multiple things. You try to remove one and you have to go to all the different spots to remove the associations before you can get rid of it."

"​It will not go as fast as you want. ​"

"It would be helpful, and convenient to improve the Chat support."

"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."

"There are not a lot of templates available to use, so we had to start many things from scratch."

"Guardium has not saved us time or money."

"The biggest challenge is the cost associated with the product, and the cost of maintaining. Everything is not translated directly to the benefits we see. There are benefits, yes, but if I were writing the check, would I buy Guardium? No."

"The cost depends on the number of databases. You can purchase advanced licenses, but the standard license is calculated based on the number of databases you have to onboard."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is low price, and ten is very high price, I rate the solution's pricing a nine out of ten."

"Guardium won mostly because of our scope and scale. It was able to perform at the scale that we wanted to use it. ​"

"I would suggest to review the type of data, need for security, and if the organizational structure needs the options IBM Guardium provides."

"It is a very costly product."

"​If you are researching this type of solution, work with IBM."