We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiDB [EOL] and IBM Security Guardium Data Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Imperva, Oracle and others in Database Security."The most valuable features of this solution are the security aspects."
"We use it to protect files and to prevent users from browsing them while they are being used."
"It is extremely stable, and can expand as per our needs due to its stability."
"The solution is very good at preventing intrusions. You can definitely rely on this solution to cover your security."
"The biggest thing, for us lately, has been their cloud tools. They're like Intercept X from Sophos, where they'll test for ransomware. Fortinet has the same sort of set up with their cloud devices. So your firewall picks up something suspicious, it sends it up to the cloud for analysis. We also have their in-house antivirus. Having different antivirus checkpoints throughout the network is a good thing as well."
"The dashboard is very simple. It has an easy to use interface."
"It's one of the first to encrypt DB2 databases."
"The most valuable features are the reporting and data-level access control."
"IBM Guardium Data Protection is very good at keeping your database secure."
"Its ability to find data."
"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."
"The ability to collect the data without database administers being able to modify it."
"Setting up Guardium was easy and straightforward."
"We are using it to do a lot of data discovery from a data classification for structured data."
"I would like better APIs and integration with other products, like Python and SQL."
"We had some issues trying to fix some critical bugs, such as the SSL encryption."
"They need to improve the web filter to make it more user-friendly."
"Some use case analyses could be improved."
"I'm an old-school guy. I really don't like web GUI interfaces. They're always slow and laggy and their design is restricted, whereas a binary deployment for an admin tool is always faster, easier, more flexible. I would like that kind of functionality from Fortinet."
"The pricing of this solution is a little bit on the high side and can be improved."
"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."
"We have had some issues with patches breaking things unexpectedly in our environments."
"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."
"Using the data in native Guardium is difficult, at best."
"It needs an integration with Optum."
"It will not go as fast as you want. "
"Right now we're having some issues where it's using a high CPU, we don't know why. So, better testing before the product is ready would help."
"The installation should be a bit easier."
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Fortinet FortiDB [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Database Security while IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 70 reviews. Fortinet FortiDB [EOL] is rated 8.2, while IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiDB [EOL] writes "The cloud tools are able to test for ransomware when the firewall picks up something suspicous". 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". Fortinet FortiDB [EOL] is most compared with , 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.
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