We performed a comparison between IBM Security Guardium Data Protection and jSonar based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Imperva, Oracle and others in Database Security."he solution offers trouble-free access."
"We have integrated IBM Guardium with IBM Watson Curator. They access Curator to identify and correlate other actions the user is doing to determine if this is a legitimate action or not."
"This is a multi-platform solution that consolidates everything and centralizes support for it."
"Setting up Guardium was easy and straightforward."
"It provides us regulatory compliance proof and evidence for audit."
"There are different modules but the most valuable ones are firewalling and masking. Additionally, the auditing of the entire database is helpful, which includes all the activity of the database users and administrators. We can monitor everything and log as well."
"The ability to collect the data without database administers being able to modify it."
"The most valuable feature of the solution for the customers is the monitoring and full log of the database activity of privileged users."
"It allows us to run models against it and do reports against it without understanding the different database technologies."
"The centralization of the data is probably the most useful feature because we span multiple database technologies. We also find the GBDI portion of it very helpful."
"There could be a feature to integrate and protect multiple databases. The local support services need improvements as well."
"Since we are resellers we do not have enough information about the technical aspects and the areas of improvement. However, one consistent report that we receive from our customers is that IBM does not offer timely support due to the size of the organisation. It would be great if they could improve their response time."
"Overall testing and quality need improvement. It is fairly buggy at times, so it feels like it could use additional staff on the product, testing and trying it out."
"Guardium Data Protection is far better in terms of external integration. But in terms of firewall features, like when you're blocking activities, it's as if Oracle AVDF simply has superior features. This is just from third-party observations, but the users of Oracle AVDF are saying that when it comes to the firewall and protection functionality, they're much more inclined to AVDF."
"The installation should be a bit easier."
"It will not go as fast as you want. "
"I would like to be able to upgrade appliances within major versions without needing to rebuild the appliance."
"The deployment is complex and requires expertise to deploy."
"It can be simplified as it is a little complicated."
"It would be better if it were more user-friendly. Right now, it's a little bit of a complicated product to use. Another problem that we have is with encrypted traffic on Oracle. This is because it requires a database outage. That's a pain in the butt because you're monitoring critical systems, and they don't like outages."
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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 70 reviews while jSonar is ranked 6th in Database Security with 2 reviews. IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2, while jSonar is rated 8.0. 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 jSonar writes "Serves as a data lake for database activity and helps to centralize and normalize data". IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault, Oracle Advanced Security, DataSunrise Database Security and Trustwave DbProtect, whereas jSonar is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security and Oracle Audit Vault.
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