We performed a comparison between IBM Security Guardium Data Protection and jSonar based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Imperva, Oracle and others in Database Security."The most valuable features have been how easy it is to deploy and use, as well as the comprehensive monitoring options. These are a few things that customers like most about this product."
"The platform provides data protection from internal and external threats."
"IBM Guardium Data Protection has better integration options than most of the leading competitors on the market, and the price is always better."
"It provides a comprehensive security for databases, both on-prem and on the cloud. Among the advanced features we use automatic backups, DR."
"It has automated a bunch of manual tasks, giving us insights into activities that we would not otherwise be able to capture."
"One of the most valuable features is the accelerator. It has a predefined report for PCI SOX compliance and other compliances."
"Provides a unified key management system to help simplify encryption key management."
"We also use IBM Guardium to support security initiatives and compliance policies. For example, our audit area can verify if someone has access to information that they shouldn't have, for their regular job functions."
"The centralization of the data is probably the most useful feature because we span multiple database technologies. We also find the GBDI portion of it very helpful."
"It allows us to run models against it and do reports against it without understanding the different database technologies."
"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."
"The backup and recovery is very resource-hungry and requires a huge amount of storage capacity."
"I'd like to see a smoother GUI interface for the CAS agent - CAS does configurations on the database - to interface better with the vulnerability assessments."
"We have had some issues with patches breaking things unexpectedly in our environments."
"I would like to be able to upgrade appliances within major versions without needing to rebuild the appliance."
"Needs easier integration with custom applications."
"I would like to see AI and machine learning added in the future."
"It would be helpful, and convenient to improve the Chat support."
"It would be better if it were more user-friendly. Right now, it's a little bit of a complicated product to use. Another problem that we have is with encrypted traffic on Oracle. This is because it requires a database outage. That's a pain in the butt because you're monitoring critical systems, and they don't like outages."
"It can be simplified as it is a little complicated."
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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 70 reviews while jSonar is ranked 7th in Database Security with 2 reviews. IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2, while jSonar 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 jSonar writes "Serves as a data lake for database activity and helps to centralize and normalize data". IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault, Oracle Advanced Security, DataSunrise Database Security and Trustwave DbProtect, whereas jSonar is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security and Oracle Audit Vault.
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