We performed a comparison between IBM Security Guardium Data Protection and Oracle Advanced Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Imperva, Oracle and others in Database Security."The most valuable features of this product are activity monitoring on the database servers, discovery capabilities, and vulnerability scanning."
"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."
"It provides us regulatory compliance proof and evidence for audit."
"The ability to collect the data without database administers being able to modify it."
"Provides a unified key management system to help simplify encryption key management."
"The most valuable feature is the GUI, the interface. It also interfaces well with REST API, if you want to automate some of the commands."
"Supports security initiatives and ensures compliance policies."
"It's made database monitoring more visible to the business, creating more conversations about how we should do it better."
"The features that are the most used by the customers and partners are, at the moment, for GDPR, so obviously data encryption and data reduction. Our customers also like the partitioning option."
"The most valuable feature is the data encryption option for columns and tables."
"The technical support is very poor."
"They could enable the out-of-the-box feature to track application user activity."
"One of the limitations that everyone who uses Guardium knows is its ability for back-end reporting. The ability to collect it sometimes is easier than the ability to retrieve it, use it, or give a good representation of it for incidence response or questions which come from the different people who want to use the data."
"Could be more user friendly; deployment is a little complex."
"The documentation could be better."
"I have already mentioned to IBM that a primary need is to improve the number of records in the reports above 65,535."
"There are features like end-to-end and S-TAP mapping, and the ability to install policies for your configuration builder. They're not there, but we'd like to see them in the next version."
"I'd like to see a smoother GUI interface for the CAS agent - CAS does configurations on the database - to interface better with the vulnerability assessments."
"Having a single command to encrypt a table would be an improvement."
"It is really constrained as an environment because you cannot change something that would be useful. It is a very good product because it is very similar to what you have on-premises. Yes, it is constrained, but it is expected because it is a platform as a service so it has to be constrained."
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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 70 reviews while Oracle Advanced Security is ranked 12th in Endpoint Encryption. IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2, while Oracle Advanced Security 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 Oracle Advanced Security writes "Good support, stable, and offers encryption at both the column and table level". IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault, DataSunrise Database Security, Vormetric Application Crypto Suite and IBM InfoSphere Optim Data Privacy, whereas Oracle Advanced Security is most compared with Microsoft BitLocker, Voltage SecureData Enterprise, Protegrity Data Security and Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting.
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