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."
"IBM Guardium Data Protection has better integration options than most of the leading competitors on the market, and the price is always better."
"It does not require our involvement to run it. It runs in the background and the people that do the reporting do so. The reports go to the directors who are in charge of the various data areas. It's pretty clean. Clearly there is some setup, but after you get it set up it just goes."
"The solution supports a lot of databases."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable feature I have found is the performance of client monitoring. The other competitors are unable to do this."
"Gathering the data works very well. "
"The additional improvement can be done as the issues are encountered."
"Additional improvement can be done as the issues are encountered."
"Needs easier integration with custom applications."
"Right now we're having some issues where it's using a high CPU, we don't know why. So, better testing before the product is ready would help."
"I would like to see streamlining of some of the agent features, some of the patches; make it a little bit more user-friendly on the documentation."
"Using the data in native Guardium is difficult, at best."
"It needs an integration with Optum."
"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."
"I would like to be able to upgrade appliances within major versions without needing to rebuild the appliance."
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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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