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."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."
"It provides a comprehensive security for databases, both on-prem and on the cloud. Among the advanced features we use automatic backups, DR."
"The purpose of EBM Guardium is to monitor database activity and who is accessing it. This is the most valuable feature."
"Our internal audit is keeping an eye out, and making sure that we're in compliance. Having the Guardium solution and its reporting helps us get through that process a lot more quickly and efficiently."
"The solution supports a lot of databases."
"Ability to define reports based on SQL query, especially when you have complex report criteria."
"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."
"Audit Process Builder – Workflow generator to enhance audit tasks and compliance workflows."
"Out-of-the-box policies ensure our compliance with standards like SOX, ISO 27001, and so on."
"All of the other components that make up the infrastructure in the environment including the operating system are also quite valuable."
"The critical event alerts and reporting features have greatly reduced loss of man hours that would have been spent on going through the whole audit event logs."
"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."
"The solution is very stable and reliable."
"Technical support is perfect."
"Our clients can see all of their past actions or the wrong activity done on the network. We can load the diagnostics for the business."
"The solution could be improved for NoSQL databases."
"Guardium's storage capabilities could use some improvement. I'd also like to have some better integration using digital technology or a connector."
"Setup can be complex. The documentation is in so many different locations, and a lot of times we have to leverage support and higher level resources to figure out the right steps to take."
"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 have already mentioned to IBM that a primary need is to improve the number of records in the reports above 65,535."
"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."
"I would like to be able to upgrade appliances within major versions without needing to rebuild the appliance."
"Initial setup is very complex. Once you start interacting with people's databases, they get very hesitant. Then, the amount of social tasks to socialize the solution ensuring people are comfortable with it became a much heavier lift."
"The performance of Oracle Audit Vault could be improved, especially in handling large data collections and generating reports on time."
"We would like to see the ability to administer and manage the solution through Enterprise Manager 13c, and development of the dashboards that are generally missing."
"Stability could be improved, we have had some challenges"
"Some of our customers were asking about latency when the application wants to get to the database."
"Currently, you need two servers: one for Audit Vault and one for the firewall. If they can combine them into one server, it will be great because it is costly to have two servers. It will also make its installation easier. I have heard that in the new version, there will be only one server for both."
"The product monitors only the database and not the operating systems."
"They should simplify the integration and work with different vendors and mechanisms."
"The support could improve."
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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 70 reviews while Oracle Audit Vault is ranked 3rd in Database Security with 28 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 "Enhanced interface, agentless, and simple setup". 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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