We performed a comparison between IBM Security Guardium Data Protection, IDERA SQL Compliance Manager, and Oracle Audit Vault based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Imperva, Oracle and others in Database Security."We now have the ability to begin to understand how people, applications, and service accounts are interacting with data to better protect it."
"Supports security initiatives and ensures compliance policies."
"It tests security to support SOX compliance."
"The most valuable feature I have found is the performance of client monitoring. The other competitors are unable to do this."
"IBM Guardium Data Protection is very good at keeping your database secure."
"Guardium lets you centrally manage aggregators and collectors."
"The tool helps detect invalid login attempts within a specific time frame."
"he solution offers trouble-free access."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The tool can track logins and login failures. I made my own alert so that if there is a certain number of login failures for a server, it emails me. That is really useful. If I want logins to automatically lock out after a certain number of failed attempts, I can know when that happens."
"The ability to track activity including the SQL statements is definitely valuable. I really like how the database is laid out. It's straightforward. I can query the back-end tables. I've made a few of my own email alerts based on the data and the tables. It's accessible."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Audit Vault is that it is agentless and enhanced user interface."
"Out-of-the-box policies ensure our compliance with standards like SOX, ISO 27001, and so on."
"The critical event alerts and reporting features have greatly reduced loss of man hours that would have been spent on going through the whole audit event logs."
"Technical support is perfect."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is that it can help us secure our databases."
"Our clients can see all of their past actions or the wrong activity done on the network. We can load the diagnostics for the business."
"The solution is very stable and reliable."
"This solution acts as a complete data warehouse for our audit data."
"Deployment process is very complicated as you need to now all advanced parameters. Almost not possible to figure out for yourself."
"The deployment is complex and requires expertise to deploy."
"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."
"I would like to see IBM Guardium have other encryption algorithms employed."
"An improvement would be to make the pricing relative in terms of regions."
"More automation, user guides, and tips would make this solution better."
"If IBM Guardium Data Protection could find a way to not have a lot of coding and development required to get the solution up and running it would be an advantage. The information of the agent could improve, which is necessary for us to monitor the databases would be a great benefit."
"More predictive, using Watson AI would be good."
"I submitted a ticket (last year) about archiving/grooming of old records because the GUI functionality was not working. Per their recommendation, I ended up using a command line to do it."
"What would really a good thing is if you could refer to an external list or table for filtering on, say, certain applications, IP addresses, or host names; or perhaps even combinations of host name and application name."
"Its filtration and navigation are not the best."
"There is an agent that collects the data on SQL Server. Sometimes it will stop collecting. I'm not exactly sure what's happening but I have to go in and manually restart the agent. It would be nice if the central collection server could send a request to the agent to restart."
"The set up is kind of clunky, in my opinion. It's not really intuitive. If they had either a smoother install or better instructions, that would be nice."
"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."
"An easy, friendly user interface would be nice to have, since this would enable administrators to identify important events with a prompt response."
"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."
"They should simplify the integration and work with different vendors and mechanisms."
"The product monitors only the database and not the operating systems."
"The support could improve."
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