We performed a comparison between IBM Security Guardium Data Protection and Trustwave DbProtect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"It has automated a bunch of manual tasks, giving us insights into activities that we would not otherwise be able to capture."
"The purpose of EBM Guardium is to monitor database activity and who is accessing it. This is the most valuable feature."
"Its ability to find data."
"Accelerators is one of the big functions they have out there. It gives you canned reports that you don't have to make yourself, they're out there by being part of the patch. You just have to fill your information in to some of the already built groups, for your environment, and it automates a lot of that. That has definitely helped improve things."
"The most valuable feature for me, in my role as systems DBA, is the expediting of internal and external audits."
"The ability to collect the data without database administers being able to modify it."
"Guardium does a great job of capturing data and having the ability of trying to pull it out and make sense of it. Using it for business applications is its biggest capability."
"This solution helps our clients to monitor their database use, and detect violations of the policy."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that you can have a good view which is provided with a proper division of all your databases, which you can see in Trustwave DbProtect."
"Transfer and vulnerability scanning are the most valuable features of this product."
"Flexibility could be improved."
"Sometimes the performance is not good, and also sometimes we have sudden bugs causing difficulties."
"An improvement would be to make the pricing relative in terms of regions."
"An area for improvement would be the user interface - currently, it takes around two to three months to become comfortable using it."
"Performance and the ability to use resources could be improved."
"I would like to see a lot of additional reporting and analytics features. They have basic outlier detection, but I would love to see that go further, and model it after analytics tools like Splunk."
"I would like them to support cloud services."
"The documentation could be better."
"The product does not have encryption or data masking."
"I have seen that the tool's installation phase has some problems regarding the versions, specifically the version of SQL."
"We have not been able to integrate this product with a lot of standard incident response solutions, so an open API would help in this regard."
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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 70 reviews while Trustwave DbProtect is ranked 4th in Database Security with 6 reviews. IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2, while Trustwave DbProtect 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 Trustwave DbProtect writes "A tool that offers a proper view and division of all databases while also allowing users to do continuous monitoring". IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault, Oracle Advanced Security, DataSunrise Database Security and Informatica Dynamic Data Masking, whereas Trustwave DbProtect is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault and Trustwave AppDetectivePRO.
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