We performed a comparison between Fortra's Vera and IBM Security Guardium Data Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Imperva, Oracle and others in Database Security."Vera encryption 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 most valuable features are the reporting and data-level access control."
"Has a great Big Data Intelligence feature."
"Compliance Quick Start – Quick, GUI, step-by-step guide to automate compliance and give the customer a quick ROI."
"Guardium lets you centrally manage aggregators and collectors."
"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."
"Being an IBM product it really offers security integration capabilities and robust features. Over the years, it has satisfactory met the requirements of our customers which makes it a very reliable and versatile solution."
"It sends out an immediate alert when there's suspicious activity."
"Additional improvement can be done as the issues are encountered."
"The additional improvement can be done as the issues are encountered."
"IBM should add more database security features to Guardium. They could add user profiling, anomaly detection, and machine learning. IBM has user profiling, but they need to strengthen it. It should make sense for the users. It should remove most of the false positives."
"Performance and the ability to use resources could be improved."
"More predictive, using Watson AI would be good."
"It was difficult implementing it, configuring it, getting it up and running and in production. However, since then, I believe it has stabilized."
"I am struggling getting through to social."
"There could be a feature to integrate and protect multiple databases. The local support services need improvements as well."
"It will not go as fast as you want. "
"Guardium's storage capabilities could use some improvement. I'd also like to have some better integration using digital technology or a connector."
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Fortra's Vera is ranked 11th in Database Security with 1 review while IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 70 reviews. Fortra's Vera is rated 9.0, while IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortra's Vera writes "Has good encryption features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Security Guardium Data Protection writes "Provides visibility, has a single console that shows all information, and collector-aggregator capabilities". Fortra's Vera is most compared with , whereas IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault, Oracle Advanced Security, DataSunrise Database Security and Vormetric Application Crypto Suite.
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