Compare IBM Guardium Data Protection vs. IDERA SQL Compliance Manager

The IBM Security Guardium portfolio empowers organizations to grow their business and prove compliance with smarter data protection capabilities. It provides complete visibility, actionable insights, real time controls and automated compliance workflows throughout the entire data protection journey, to support your most critical data protection needs.

IBM Security Guardium delivers discovery & classification, vulnerability & risk assessments, real-time monitoring & alerting, encryption, advanced analytics and compliance reporting across structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data in on-prem (including mainframe), cloud, and across hybrid cloud environments.

IDERA SQL Compliance Manager is a comprehensive auditing solution that uses policy-based algorithms to track changes to Microsoft SQL Server objects and data. SQL Compliance Manager provides detailed visibility to determine who did what, when, where, and how, whether privileged users or hackers started the event. SQL Compliance Manager also ensures compliance with regulatory and data security requirements such as SOX, PCI DSS, GDPR, HIPAA, and more. SQL Compliance Manager goes beyond traditional auditing approaches by providing real-time monitoring, alerting, and auditing of all data access, selects, updates, schema modifications and permission changes to databases.

Unlike its competition, it provides a quick configuration of audit settings, a broad list of regulatory guideline templates for audit settings and reports, before and after data values for both regulatory compliance and forensic data investigations, differentiation of data access and between regular and privileged users and applications, easy specification of and reporting on sensitive data columns access and changes, and extensive customization of audit settings for databases and servers.