I have been using a lot of information security solutions like Ivanti and ManageEngine. When it comes to hardware, I have used Dell EMC, Cisco, HP, and VMware.

The company I work for now had the product when I came in.

In terms of important criteria when selecting a vendor, they include what support is like, how trustworthy the company is, and how they respect their clients.

No, IBM Guardium was already in use. 

No previous or different solution was used.

We invested in Guardium because of regulatory compliance issues. Guardium is the only product in the market that could meet these needs. 

We did not previously use another solution before choosing this IBM product.

We didn't previously use a different solution.

Our previous solution was manual.

Our most important criteria when selecting a vendor are reliability, the reputation, and the product itself has to deliver in an efficient manner. Our company is heavily involved with IBM products, so adding another product or taking a product away is not very hard.

Yes we use Imperva SecureSphere, and still use it as Guardium has failed POC. We were not able to replicate our current deployment and some major issues, Guardium had, prevented us from selecting this product.

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We knew there was a gap that needed to be filled, I believe, when they engaged IBM. We had some pretty specific, and general, requirements around auditing and security. I don't recall who else they looked at in that space, but IBM seemed to fulfill every requirement we had on our list. And some issues we didn't even know about, because of our level of maturity; you don't know what you don't know, until you find out, "Oh, we can do that?"

This is the first database security solution that I have worked with.

This was a management decision. I think when they found Anthem was getting breached they decided, "Hey, let's try something else."

When selecting a vendor, the most important criteria for me are the

• reliability of the vendor
• name recognition
• support model
• cost, of course.

I cannot recall an instance where a customer switched to this solution from another one that they already had in place.

We have been assisting people with migrating from earlier versions to the current version.

Previously, we were using home grown scripts and native database tools. The issue with this approach is the need for expertise on every platform and ending up with dozens of tools to manage.

We were not using any other product prior to this one.

We had rolled our own stuff to do some of what Guardium does, but I think it was organizational recognition that switching was something that needed to be done. The monitoring and reporting was lacking in our organization. We had pockets where we had built our own, but now we're able to use one platform to do that monitoring for all of our database environments.

We went with IBM because it was a combination of functionality and familiarity, in that we have a lot of IBM products in-house, and it fit the criteria.

Back when I was a developer, I developed an audit trail module in Java/JEE. Obviously, it was not as sophisticated as Guardium.

We were previously using homegrown scripts. We decided to switch primarily because this is a multi-platform solution that consolidates everything and centralizes support for it.

When selecting a vendor, we reviewed two other products, but the main reason was that this is a multi-platform solution and it worked well in our environment.

I did not use another solution before this one.

I have often replaced internal database auditing features with Guardium. The main reason for the switch was to segregate the auditing from the database administrators.

We knew we needed to switch because of that problem with the audit trail, that SQL couldn't keep up with what we needed to do for auditing. That's why we had to search for a new solution.

I did not previously use a different solution.

Initially, there were two solutions to be evaluated: Oracle and Imperva. Oracle DAP was not evaluated because it does not monitor Linux or Windows Server-only environments. 

I evaluated Imperva and got good results. However, there is a delay by Imperva in creating updated agents for Linux and Unix, including for mainframe. For me, this is a problem because it is necessary to always keep the environment up to date. If you update the kernel or release of mainframes and do not have the agent upgraded, the DAP will not monitor.

My main solution was Micro Focus voltage data encryption solution, but it was too complicated. 

We were using traditional cyber security stuff. But this is a pretty good product. We became an IBM business partner, we are a cyber security business partner for IBM. We have other products besides Guardium that we are marketing.

The most important criteria when selecting a vendor are their

• stability
• quality
• support.