We performed a comparison between IBM Guardium Data Protection and Imperva SecureSphere Database Security based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: IBM Guardium Data Protection and Imperva SecureSphere Database Security have a similar user rating regarding ease of deployment, pricing, and service and support. In terms of features, IBM Guardium Data Protection reviewers felt the software wasn’t user-friendly. In contrast, Imperva SecureSphere Database Security reviewers felt the reporting feature needed improvement.
"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."
"We use IBM Guardium to support security initiatives and combine policies within the organization."
"From the perspective of analysis and prevention, this product is pretty accurate."
"The most valuable feature I have found is the performance of client monitoring. The other competitors are unable to do this."
"We now have the ability to begin to understand how people, applications, and service accounts are interacting with data to better protect it."
"Security policy enforcement of policy-based encryption and centralized encryption key management allows us to maintain data in a secure environment."
"It tests security to support SOX compliance."
"The purpose of EBM Guardium is to monitor database activity and who is accessing it. This is the most valuable feature."
"A solution which does what other name brand products do for a lower cost."
"It has a very user-friendly interface that's very detailed."
"They have very good documentation and knowledgebase resources that add to the depth of their support."
"The product’s most valuable feature is real-time highlights."
"It has a user-friendly interface. It is a stable and scalable product."
"The cyber intelligence feature is the most valuable."
"There are three major main use cases of this solution. The first one is to fulfill compliance regulations. Customers—especially the banks, health sector, and manufacturing—need to comply with the regulations in different countries. They have to fulfill compliance regulations around the privacy of data. In order to fulfill those requirements, they're using Imperva. It helps them to fulfill these requirements, and they are not fined by the regulators. That is the first use case why people buy Imperva."
"Ability to send event monitoring and administrative activities."
"It would be helpful, and convenient to improve the Chat support."
"Performance and the ability to use resources could be improved."
"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."
"Needs nore cloud support."
"The one thing that I would like to see improved, but I don't think it's going to be in the next release, is its reporting capabilities. I think that's been offloaded to another third-party product that I think IBM actually endorses for that."
"The solution lacks control over database security."
"They could enable the out-of-the-box feature to track application user activity."
"An improvement would be to make the pricing relative in terms of regions."
"The GUI is bad."
"They can maybe look at its pricing model. Its pricing could be cheaper for the African countries or developing economies."
"The solution needs local support."
"It is quite expensive. I would prefer a lower price."
"Performance can be slow under heavy loads, but this should be adjusted by scaling."
"Reporting could be improved."
"Database security from the access management perspective could be better."
"Imperva needs to improve their cloud capabilities."
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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 70 reviews while Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is ranked 2nd in Database Security with 52 reviews. IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2, while Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is rated 8.2. 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 Imperva SecureSphere Database Security writes "The fine-grained auditing available on the platform makes life easier and helps explain anything happening in your database". IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Oracle Audit Vault, Oracle Advanced Security, DataSunrise Database Security, Vormetric Application Crypto Suite and IBM InfoSphere Optim Data Privacy, whereas Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is most compared with Oracle Audit Vault, DataSunrise Database Security, Trustwave DbProtect, jSonar and Imperva DDoS. See our IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs. Imperva SecureSphere Database Security report.
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