We performed a comparison between IBM Security Guardium Data Protection and Oracle Audit Vault 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."What I like about IBM Guardium Data Protection is that some of its features were deployed by collectors during the installation phase. The solution has collector and aggregator features, license installation, and even server patches that you won't find in other security providers. I like the collector-aggregator capabilities of IBM Guardium Data Protection where you install each component on separate servers, then on the aggregator, you collect all the logs on a central server or central console."
"Audit Process Builder – Workflow generator to enhance audit tasks and compliance workflows."
"It sends out an immediate alert when there's suspicious activity."
"The tech support is very knowledgeable."
"The solution has definitely saved us time, because if you want to monitor this kind of vast environment of different products, it's going to take a lot of time. Let's say one database server has 100 database instances running on it; I don't need to install 100 data instances, I just need to install on the one database server and that will cover all of my instances on that particular database."
"The most valuable features are the reporting and data-level access control."
"We also use IBM Guardium to support security initiatives and compliance policies. For example, our audit area can verify if someone has access to information that they shouldn't have, for their regular job functions."
"It provides us regulatory compliance proof and evidence for audit."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Audit Vault is that it is agentless and enhanced user interface."
"It has provided us with a unique opportunity to automate risk discovery."
"It has reduced the stress of collecting database event logs in silos from each database."
"It is a good product for controlling all databases. It is helpful for auditing the data. When people are doing any actions on the databases, they are recorded automatically in the vault. You can work on the collected data to find out exactly what is happening on a database. You can implement database encryption on the databases to control people's access to the database content, such as rows and tables."
"Out-of-the-box policies ensure our compliance with standards like SOX, ISO 27001, and so on."
"Technical support is perfect."
"A powerful, flexible solution for database traffic monitoring."
"This solution acts as a complete data warehouse for our audit data."
"The one thing that I would like to see improved, but I don't think it's going to be in the next release, is its reporting capabilities. I think that's been offloaded to another third-party product that I think IBM actually endorses for that."
"I'd like to them make sure that the data sources can be more easily managed, because some of them are tied to multiple things. You try to remove one and you have to go to all the different spots to remove the associations before you can get rid of it."
"I have already mentioned to IBM that a primary need is to improve the number of records in the reports above 65,535."
"I would like to see IBM Guardium have other encryption algorithms employed."
"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."
"Performance and the ability to use resources could be improved."
"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."
"It will not go as fast as you want. "
"I hear from many people that say IBM Guardian is better than Oracle Audit Vault when it comes to performance. IBM Guardian works transparently in the database, but Oracle Audit Vault consumes some ratios on the server."
"Some of our customers were asking about latency when the application wants to get to the database."
"The support could improve."
"This solution doesn't audit the network."
"Stability could be improved, we have had some challenges"
"They should simplify the integration and work with different vendors and mechanisms."
"The product monitors only the database and not the operating systems."
"One feature that is missing is the ability to have a secret server that is always encrypted."
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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 16 reviews while Oracle Audit Vault is ranked 3rd in Database Security with 3 reviews. IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2, while Oracle Audit Vault 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 Audit Vault writes " The other components that make up the infrastructure in the environment including the operating system are valuable". IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Advanced Security, DataSunrise Database Security, Vormetric Application Crypto Suite and IBM InfoSphere Optim Data Privacy, whereas Oracle Audit Vault is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Trustwave DbProtect, DB Networks DBN-6300, DataSunrise Database Security and jSonar. See our IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs. Oracle Audit Vault report.
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