IBM Guardium Data Protection vs. Informatica Persistent Data Masking Comparison

IBM Guardium Data Protection

Informatica Persistent Data Masking

IBM Guardium Data Protection

Read 6 IBM Guardium Data Protection reviews.

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Informatica Persistent Data Masking

Read 2 Informatica Persistent Data Masking reviews.

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Proven record of preventing unauthorized access and modifications to our customer's data

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Pros
"It allows us to put in controls to make sure that only the right persons access the proper records in the database.""From the perspective of analysis and prevention, this product is pretty accurate.""Ease of deployment is a valuable feature.""The most valuable features are the reporting and data-level access control.""he solution offers trouble-free access.""One of the most valuable features is the accelerator. It has a predefined report for PCI SOX compliance and other compliances." More IBM Guardium Data Protection Pros »	"The most valuable feature is data discovery. This is the most exciting feature for all of the banks.""The most valuable features are the structure masking and platform masking." More Informatica Persistent Data Masking Pros »
Cons
"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.""Sometimes the connectors to the databases need to be manually updated and we have to configure them again, which is something that should be improved.""Flexibility could be improved.""The price of this solution is quite high for smaller organizations, so they should release a version that is affordable for small and medium-sized businesses.""The technical support is very poor.""The most important requirements for us are integration with new database solutions and the ability to manage things like Jailbreak or something like that. Its reduction feature can also be improved. It has a functionality called reduction, which is like masking data, but it is just a replacement of characters. Sometimes the customer needs more than this. It would be good if it was more advanced or complete. We also have a problem with this solution because the IBM aggregator isn't working very well. IBM has created big data intelligence for Guardium, and occasionally, customers need three or four months of data, but they can't run it from the collectors. It can have a better dashboard and more pre-defined use cases for those customers who don't have any idea about data protection or don't have expert personnel in this area. For example, they can include five use cases for banks and five use cases for retail." More IBM Guardium Data Protection Cons »	"I have encountered some issues using the substitution, which is one of the techniques of data masking.""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." More Informatica Persistent Data Masking Cons »

Pricing and Cost Advice
"One of the deployments that I know of had three databases, and the yearly fees are approximately $50,000 USD.""Its cost is good. With the new metric of licensing, such as PDO not being available now, customers are expecting a good price for the solution." More IBM Guardium Data Protection Pricing and Cost Advice »	Information Not Available

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What do you like most about IBM Guardium Data Protection? Top Answer: From the perspective of analysis and prevention, this product is pretty accurate. Read all 2 answers What needs improvement with IBM Guardium Data Protection? Top Answer: Sometimes the connectors to the databases need to be manually updated and we have to configure them again, which is something that should be improved. Read all 2 answers What is your primary use case for IBM Guardium Data Protection? Top Answer: The primary use case is for ensuring compliance with databases. It allows monitoring of what kind of statements and alterations are going on, as well as who is accessing what data. Read all 2 answers	What do you like most about Informatica Persistent Data Masking? Top Answer: The most valuable features are the structure masking and platform masking. Read all 2 answers What needs improvement with Informatica Persistent Data Masking? Top Answer: I don't see where it has much room for improvement. Read all 2 answers What is your primary use case for Informatica Persistent Data Masking? Top Answer: We have a lot of applications with different functionality. We use Informatica mainly for sensitivity tests. Read all 2 answers
Ranking
1st out of 26 in Data Masking Views 14,277 Comparisons 6,706 Reviews 5 Average Words per Review 762 Rating 8.2	4th out of 26 in Data Masking Views 1,603 Comparisons 1,210 Reviews 2 Average Words per Review 413 Rating 8.0
Popular Comparisons
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InfoSphere Guardium, Guardium, IBM Guardium	Data Masking, Informatica Data Masking
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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.	De-identify, de-sensitize, and anonymize sensitive data from unauthorized access for application users, business intelligence, application testing, and outsourcing.
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Sample Customers
	Vale, Hot Telecommunication, UPMC
Top Industries
REVIEWERS Financial Services Firm48% Insurance Company16% Healthcare Company12% Government8% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Computer Software Company31% Comms Service Provider18% Financial Services Firm12% Insurance Company7%	VISITORS READING REVIEWS Computer Software Company32% Comms Service Provider18% Insurance Company9% Energy/Utilities Company8%
Company Size
REVIEWERS Small Business26% Midsize Enterprise12% Large Enterprise62%	No Data Available

IBM Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Data Masking with 6 reviews while Informatica Persistent Data Masking is ranked 4th in Data Masking with 2 reviews. IBM Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2, while Informatica Persistent Data Masking 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 Informatica Persistent Data Masking writes "Data transformation and test management features allow us to work with unstructured data". IBM Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault, Vormetric Application Crypto Suite, Trustwave DbProtect and IBM InfoSphere Optim Data Privacy, whereas Informatica Persistent Data Masking is most compared with Protegrity Data Security, IBM InfoSphere Optim, Delphix, Imperva SecureSphere Database Security and Oracle GoldenGate. See our IBM Guardium Data Protection vs. Informatica Persistent Data Masking report.

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