We performed a comparison between IBM Security Guardium Data Protection and Voltage SecureData Enterprise 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."Guardium does a great job of capturing data and having the ability of trying to pull it out and make sense of it. Using it for business applications is its biggest capability."
"Efficiency is key and IBM Guardium provides information in a heartbeat, but protects the data with military grade encryption."
"Compliance Quick Start – Quick, GUI, step-by-step guide to automate compliance and give the customer a quick ROI."
"Provides a unified key management system to help simplify encryption key management."
"We are using it to do a lot of data discovery from a data classification for structured data."
"Being an IBM product it really offers security integration capabilities and robust features. Over the years, it has satisfactory met the requirements of our customers which makes it a very reliable and versatile solution."
"It has been very difficult to analyze all the network traffic with something else. Guardium provides that feature, it's heuristic. So we have rule-based algorithms in place to take care of that."
"We now have the ability to begin to understand how people, applications, and service accounts are interacting with data to better protect it."
"The most valuable feature of Micro Focus Voltage SecureData Enterprise is the ease of configuration and the group services rest API."
"The number one feature I found was that the install was really easy, it was quite helpful."
"The price of this solution is quite high for smaller organizations, so they should release a version that is affordable for small and medium-sized businesses."
"Since we are resellers we do not have enough information about the technical aspects and the areas of improvement. However, one consistent report that we receive from our customers is that IBM does not offer timely support due to the size of the organisation. It would be great if they could improve their response time."
"The solution could be improved for NoSQL databases."
"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."
"Sometimes the performance is not good, and also sometimes we have sudden bugs causing difficulties."
"It was difficult implementing it, configuring it, getting it up and running and in production. However, since then, I believe it has stabilized."
"The solution lacks control over database security."
"I would like to be able to upgrade appliances within major versions without needing to rebuild the appliance."
"For a future release, the interface looks a bit dated and could be improved."
"Micro Focus Voltage SecureData Enterprise can improve the types of encryptions. They are limited by the number of types of encryption and types of masking they are allowing. In the solution that we were using, the illustration interface and the number of capabilities in terms of data masking were limited."
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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 70 reviews while Voltage SecureData Enterprise is ranked 10th in Endpoint Encryption with 2 reviews. IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2, while Voltage SecureData Enterprise 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 Voltage SecureData Enterprise writes "Easy configuration, high availability, and excellent support". IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault, Oracle Advanced Security, DataSunrise Database Security and jSonar, whereas Voltage SecureData Enterprise is most compared with Protegrity Data Security, Oracle Advanced Security and Vormetric Application Crypto Suite. See our IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs. Voltage SecureData Enterprise report.
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