We performed a comparison between IBM Security Guardium Data Protection and Informatica Persistent Data Masking 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."Setting up Guardium was easy and straightforward."
"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."
"From the perspective of analysis and prevention, this product is pretty accurate."
"It allows us to put in controls to make sure that only the right persons access the proper records in the database."
"I think IMB's technical support is good."
"Gathering the data works very well. "
"The tech support is very knowledgeable."
"We now have the ability to begin to understand how people, applications, and service accounts are interacting with data to better protect it."
"Informatica is user-friendly, stable, and scalable. These three aspects are the most valuable for us. If we can make it work well with the CRM, we can continue or try again this year to complete that part of the project. I am confident that this kind of solution is what we need because we have a third-party resource that works in the development."
"The most valuable features are the structure masking and platform masking."
"The most valuable feature is data discovery. This is the most exciting feature for all of the banks."
"Informatica Persistent Data Masking can mask production data for different users, ensuring that only authorized individuals can access sensitive information."
"Informatica provides a comprehensive solution for on-the-fly or real-time data masking."
"The biggest complaint that I hear from customers and users is that using this solution requires database skills, yet it is a security and monitoring tool."
"If IBM Guardium Data Protection could find a way to not have a lot of coding and development required to get the solution up and running it would be an advantage. The information of the agent could improve, which is necessary for us to monitor the databases would be a great benefit."
"Performance and the ability to use resources could be improved."
"We have had some issues with patches breaking things unexpectedly in our environments."
"The most important requirements for us are integration with new database solutions and the ability to manage things like Jailbreak or something like that. Its reduction feature can also be improved. It has a functionality called reduction, which is like masking data, but it is just a replacement of characters. Sometimes the customer needs more than this. It would be good if it was more advanced or complete. We also have a problem with this solution because the IBM aggregator isn't working very well. IBM has created big data intelligence for Guardium, and occasionally, customers need three or four months of data, but they can't run it from the collectors. It can have a better dashboard and more pre-defined use cases for those customers who don't have any idea about data protection or don't have expert personnel in this area. For example, they can include five use cases for banks and five use cases for retail."
"The documentation could be better."
"It needs an integration with Optum."
"An improvement would be to make the pricing relative in terms of regions."
"Once the data is masked, we won't be able to reverse it back to its original value."
"Informatica's support understands the solution, but they lack the experience we need for our use case. That was one thing that we prioritized when we started searching for this kind of solution."
"I have encountered some issues using the substitution, which is one of the techniques of data masking."
"The data discovery isn't that good yet for Salesforce. We have another tool that we use for this. It may be a problem because Salesforce on the cloud."
"Informatica should simplify the rules for setting classifications and user access management permissions. It's too complex to define, configure, and make work."
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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 70 reviews while Informatica Persistent Data Masking is ranked 6th in Data Masking with 5 reviews. IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2, while Informatica Persistent Data Masking is rated 7.8. 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 Informatica Persistent Data Masking writes "Enables secure data protection during testing and controlled access to sensitive information". IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault, Oracle Advanced Security, DataSunrise Database Security and Delphix, whereas Informatica Persistent Data Masking is most compared with Delphix, Protegrity Data Security, IBM InfoSphere Optim, Imperva SecureSphere Database Security and Oracle GoldenGate. See our IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs. Informatica Persistent Data Masking report.
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