We performed a comparison between IBM Security Guardium Data Protection and McAfee Vulnerability Manager for Databases [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Imperva, Oracle and others in Database Security."It allows us to put in controls to make sure that only the right persons access the proper records in the database."
"Provides a unified key management system to help simplify encryption key management."
"We use IBM Guardium to support security initiatives and combine policies within the organization."
"Audit Process Builder – Workflow generator to enhance audit tasks and compliance workflows."
"The reporting side is also very, very good, especially its flexibility which allows you to tailor the reports to whatever information you want."
"Our main focus for IBM Guardium is to support security initiatives and compliance policies within our organization. We use the DPD product for monitoring, especially for GDPR, SOX regulations and, of course, the vulnerability assessment that we use to make sure we're keeping up with our patches, making sure things are configured, making sure we're following the best practices."
"I rate Guardium 10 out of 10 for data activity monitoring and nine for vulnerability assessment. It's easy to implement and does its job. But I would rate it seven out of 10 in terms of advanced features."
"I like the reporting mechanism. It's very good."
"The feature I have found most valuable is activity monitoring."
"The technical support is good; they are knowledgeable."
"The support is very good. They are very quick to respond when we have issues."
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"I would like them to support cloud services."
"It will not go as fast as you want. "
"There are features like end-to-end and S-TAP mapping, and the ability to install policies for your configuration builder. They're not there, but we'd like to see them in the next version."
"They could enable the out-of-the-box feature to track application user activity."
"Guardium's storage capabilities could use some improvement. I'd also like to have some better integration using digital technology or a connector."
"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."
"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."
"In the next feature, I'd like to see more integrations and updates overall, specifically bottom tech."
"Technical support could be more responsive."
"The UI needs to be improved."
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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 70 reviews while McAfee Vulnerability Manager for Databases [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Database Security with 3 reviews. IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2, while McAfee Vulnerability Manager for Databases [EOL] is rated 7.6. 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 McAfee Vulnerability Manager for Databases [EOL] writes "The solution's activity monitoring is valuable, but it should have more integrations and updates overall". 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, whereas McAfee Vulnerability Manager for Databases [EOL] is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security.
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