We performed a comparison between IBM Security Guardium Data Protection and Vormetric Application Crypto Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Imperva, Oracle and others in Database Security."I rate Guardium 10 out of 10 for data activity monitoring and nine for vulnerability assessment. It's easy to implement and does its job. But I would rate it seven out of 10 in terms of advanced features."
"Accelerators is one of the big functions they have out there. It gives you canned reports that you don't have to make yourself, they're out there by being part of the patch. You just have to fill your information in to some of the already built groups, for your environment, and it automates a lot of that. That has definitely helped improve things."
"The solution supports a lot of databases."
"Supports security initiatives and ensures compliance policies."
"The features I like are the robust policies, which allow us to create customized monitoring based on specific activities."
"It's allowing us to be more proactive than reactive on alerts and access rights and types of resources that are being hit. Before, there were a lot of different solutions, but this expanded that out and made it a more holistic solution. It provides centralization of monitoring, instead of multiple, disparate applications. It definitely allows more economies of scale, streamlining, less fragmented use."
"Satisfies audit requests, to give us an idea if anybody is accessing our privileged user IDs without our knowledge."
"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."
"Transfer encryption is a great feature of Crypto Suite."
"Guardium Data Protection is far better in terms of external integration. But in terms of firewall features, like when you're blocking activities, it's as if Oracle AVDF simply has superior features. This is just from third-party observations, but the users of Oracle AVDF are saying that when it comes to the firewall and protection functionality, they're much more inclined to AVDF."
"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."
"Sometimes the performance is not good, and also sometimes we have sudden bugs causing difficulties."
"The integration part of the present solution is very complex and tedious. Plus it gives a lot of false positives which need to be eradicated over time."
"An area for improvement would be the user interface - currently, it takes around two to three months to become comfortable using it."
"I would like to be able to upgrade appliances within major versions without needing to rebuild the appliance."
"Could be more user friendly; deployment is a little complex."
"I would like to see AI and machine learning added in the future."
"Could be more agent-led with options for simplifying implementation."
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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 71 reviews while Vormetric Application Crypto Suite is ranked 6th in Data Masking with 1 review. IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2, while Vormetric Application Crypto Suite 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 Vormetric Application Crypto Suite writes "Very user friendly with good security features including transfer encryption". IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault, Oracle Advanced Security, DataSunrise Database Security and Voltage SecureData Enterprise, whereas Vormetric Application Crypto Suite is most compared with Voltage SecureData Enterprise and Protegrity Data Security.
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IBM is reselling Vormetric. IBM Guardium Data Protection includes Vormetric as part of the Data Protection Family.