We performed a comparison between IBM Security Guardium Data Protection and Informatica Persistent Data Masking based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Database Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It provides us regulatory compliance proof and evidence for audit."
"From the perspective of analysis and prevention, this product is pretty accurate."
"It tests security to support SOX compliance."
"We are using it to do a lot of data discovery from a data classification for structured data."
"I like the reporting mechanism. It's very good."
"It has automated a bunch of manual tasks, giving us insights into activities that we would not otherwise be able to capture."
"IBM Guardium Data Protection is very good at keeping your database secure."
"The most valuable features of this product are activity monitoring on the database servers, discovery capabilities, and vulnerability scanning."
"Informatica provides a comprehensive solution for on-the-fly or real-time data masking."
"Informatica is user-friendly, stable, and scalable. These three aspects are the most valuable for us. If we can make it work well with the CRM, we can continue or try again this year to complete that part of the project. I am confident that this kind of solution is what we need because we have a third-party resource that works in the development."
"The most valuable features are the structure masking and platform masking."
"Informatica Persistent Data Masking can mask production data for different users, ensuring that only authorized individuals can access sensitive information."
"The most valuable feature is data discovery. This is the most exciting feature for all of the banks."
"The analysis part of this product could be improved. It's a very comprehensive product, so the features it has complement customer requirements. But I would like to see more emphasis on analytics, and it would be great if they added machine learning. They already have analysis insights, but a comprehensive analytical feature that's already incorporated into the solution would be very helpful."
"I have already mentioned to IBM that a primary need is to improve the number of records in the reports above 65,535."
"It will not go as fast as you want. "
"I would like them to support cloud services."
"Performance and the ability to use resources could be improved."
"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."
"It needs an integration with Optum."
"We have had some issues with patches breaking things unexpectedly in our environments."
"Informatica's support understands the solution, but they lack the experience we need for our use case. That was one thing that we prioritized when we started searching for this kind of solution."
"The data discovery isn't that good yet for Salesforce. We have another tool that we use for this. It may be a problem because Salesforce on the cloud."
"Informatica should simplify the rules for setting classifications and user access management permissions. It's too complex to define, configure, and make work."
"Once the data is masked, we won't be able to reverse it back to its original value."
"I have encountered some issues using the substitution, which is one of the techniques of data masking."
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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 70 reviews while Informatica Persistent Data Masking is ranked 6th in Data Masking with 5 reviews. IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2, while Informatica Persistent Data Masking is rated 7.8. 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 Informatica Persistent Data Masking writes "Enables secure data protection during testing and controlled access to sensitive information". IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault, Oracle Advanced Security, DataSunrise Database Security and Delphix, whereas Informatica Persistent Data Masking is most compared with Delphix, Protegrity Data Security, IBM InfoSphere Optim, Imperva SecureSphere Database Security and Oracle GoldenGate. See our IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs. Informatica Persistent Data Masking report.
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