Compare IBM Guardium Data Protection vs. IDERA SQL Compliance Manager
IBM Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 24 reviews while IDERA SQL Compliance Manager is ranked 5th in Database Security with 4 reviews. IBM Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2, while IDERA SQL Compliance Manager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Guardium Data Protection writes "Proven record of preventing unauthorized access and modifications to our customer's data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IDERA SQL Compliance Manager writes "Enables us to track changes to databases and tables, but the dashboard doesn't always work as expected". IBM Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault and Informatica Secure@Source, whereas IDERA SQL Compliance Manager is most compared with IBM Guardium Data Protection, Imperva SecureSphere Database Security and IDERA SQL Secure. See our IBM Guardium Data Protection vs. IDERA SQL Compliance Manager report.
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It allows us to put in controls to make sure that only the right persons access the proper records in the database. Audit Process Builder – Workflow generator to enhance audit tasks and compliance workflows. Compliance Quick Start – Quick, GUI, step-by-step guide to automate compliance and give the customer a quick ROI. 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. The possible number of databases and database servers which can be monitored by Guardium is high. For me, this is a differentiator of IBM. Encryption is not straightforward, but Guardium made the setup easy for us. Supports security initiatives and ensures compliance policies. We now have the ability to begin to understand how people, applications, and service accounts are interacting with data to better protect it. | 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. |
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The biggest complaint that I hear from customers and users is that using this solution requires database skills, yet it is a security and monitoring tool. Needs easier integration with custom applications. I have already mentioned to IBM that a primary need is to improve the number of records in the reports above 65,535. It needs an integration with Optum. It will not go as fast as you want. Initial setup is very complex. Once you start interacting with people's databases, they get very hesitant. Then, the amount of social tasks to socialize the solution ensuring people are comfortable with it became a much heavier lift. Initially it did not have support external applications like, say, Tableau, ServiceNow, Remedy, and the like. They have started growing into it, but I would like to have more and more integration with outside applications. I am struggling getting through to social. | 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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One of the deployments that I know of had three databases, and the yearly fees are approximately $50,000 USD. The price of Guardium is higher than the main competitor, Imperva. In addition, it's complex as the calculation of the licensing is done by Processor Value Unit (PVU). However, before purchasing a DAP solution, it is important to analyze specific points to evaluate the cost-benefit of each tool. For example: Does the environment to be monitored have mainframes? If so, it's a point for Guardium. If not, a point for Imperva. Note: IBM is looking into a new licensing policy and reducing the price of Guardium. 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. Guardium won mostly because of our scope and scale. It was able to perform at the scale that we wanted to use it. If you are researching this type of solution, work with IBM. Guardium has not saved us time or money. I would suggest to review the type of data, need for security, and if the organizational structure needs the options IBM Guardium provides. | The product is cheaper than other products I checked but it is still a good idea to check again and compare. I feel the product's pricing is a good value. The pricing is pretty good. It's a good price value... The other tools weren't cheaper. |
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Also Known As | |
| InfoSphere Guardium, Guardium, IBM Guardium | IDERA SQL CM |
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Overview | |
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 your Microsoft SQL Server objects and data. SQL Compliance Manager gives you detailed visibility to determine who did “what”, “when”, “where”, and “how”, whether the event is initiated by privileged users or hackers. SQL Compliance Manager also helps ensure 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 SQL Server databases. |
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Learn more about IBM Guardium Data Protection | Learn more about IDERA SQL Compliance Manager |
Sample Customers | |
| Hanger; AmerisourceBergen, CMS Energy, Manulife Financial, Patterson Companies, Pfizer, Rockwell Automation, TrialCard, Unum, Verizon Communications | |
Top Industries | |
Financial Services Firm48% Insurance Company17% Healthcare Company13% Government9% Software R&D Company23% Financial Services Firm14% Insurance Company10% Comms Service Provider9% | No Data Available |
Company Size | |
Small Business26% Midsize Enterprise12% Large Enterprise63% Small Business11% Midsize Enterprise2% Large Enterprise86% | No Data Available |
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