IBM Security Guardium Data Protection Other Solutions Considered

Usman Rasool - PeerSpot reviewer
VP - Head Enterprise Technology Infrastructure at MCB Islamic Bank Ltd.

I have personally not evaluated other options. My predecessor had evaluated quite a few options.

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Farkhund Abbas - PeerSpot reviewer
Internet Security Specialist at National Bank of Pakistan

We didn't evaluate other solutions before using IBM Guardium Data Protection because we purchased an IBM package of three SIEM solutions: IBM QRadar, IBM Resilient, and IBM Guardium Data Protection.

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Peter Arabomen - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Engineering, Team Lead at Fidelity Bank Plc

We evaluated Imperva.

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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection
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MUHAMMADNADEEM1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Director at Board Of Revenue

There are other solutions like Imperva, but there are no service providers in Pakistan. We need local support as we need multiple deployments.

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LW
IT Security Manager at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We did evaluate other vendors. Guardium was a large purchase. We did our due diligence as we were responsible for the purchase process. Guardium won mostly because of our scope and scale. It was able to perform at the scale that we wanted to use it. 

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DC
Operator at Halliburton

No, there was no need to. 

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it_user551505 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Advisory Consultant - Cyber Security Practice at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

I wasn’t part of the evaluation for the tool.

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BD
Information Security Analyst Consultant at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Only Guardium.

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AsifIqbal - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Information Security Officer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

In the current environment that I'm working in, I did not evaluate other products. However, in the past, I have had to utilize other products.  don't recall what it was exactly, though. The other solution was from McAfee.

In terms of the ease of access and ease of deployment, IBM Guardium was much easier to deploy. However, in terms of maturity, then definitely that the other product that I used in the past was more mature than the IBM Guardium Products. 

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it_user840891 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Programmer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We did not actually PoC anybody else.

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RM
Senior Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

We initially looked at Oracle's own products, but we had legacy databases so we didn't really have many options. We had old flavors of Oracle in place.

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it_user538203 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We haven't chosen this product.

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it_user545376 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Administrator IBM Certified Specialist Infosphere Guardium at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
it_user631725 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I don't know. They went through the RFP process and selected the tool, and then I got involved, and then I hopped back out.

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VD
Socio Director at RAMDIA

Oracle Vault, Guardium, and Imperva are the three main solutions that clients consider. Easy deployment and good compatibility with all the solutions that customers have gives Guardium an advantage over other solutions.

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it_user841971 - PeerSpot reviewer
Guardium Engineer

It's pretty good. We have the latest version, so we are able to scale.

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it_user560268 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We also looked at McAfee and Fortinet.

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MT
Database Administrator at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We just talked to IBM. If we have a problem, maybe they can offer us something new, new features, etc.

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AK
CTO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I have experience with Oracle Audit Vault and Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, which are the two main competitors. If you compare Guardium with Audit Vault, the main differences are in the deployment model, how they work, and the focus of each product with regard to monitoring. Audit Vault has a different deployment method. Imperva is more similar to Guardium. 

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MN
Trusted Security Advisor at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The main competitor in the market is Imperva. They were originally not allowed in the Kingdom because of their country of origin, but they now have a local Saudi team. Some customers were approached by Imperva and did not know of Guardium, and simply went with that solution.

There is also a phenomenon in the market that is quite common when a new technology comes from the outside. Even if people don't have the full picture or details about the existing one, they feel that it is "old". Everybody has it, and they need something new. Because of this, we see a lot of people making the choice to go with Imperva. 

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it_user588594 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Software Presales Specialist

Besides native database auditing, which is very resource intensive, and homegrown tools, there are not a lot of options out there. The closest competitor is Imperva. Imperva is a close second. We chose Guardium over Imperva based on the ability for greater custom reporting, more platform support, and better integration with other IT tools.

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it_user549432 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Consultant at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We evaluated a couple of other options.

I would not like to discuss this much as it affects the other companies' image and integrity. The competitive products have their own good and bad.

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it_user841947 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems DBA at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did evaluate others, but I couldn't tell you what they were because that was a couple of years ago.

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it_user542787 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Middleware Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

Before choosing this product, I did not evaluate other options. We implement exclusively IBM products.

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it_user261765 - PeerSpot reviewer
-- at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We went in and tested it. We continually test everything that is in the industry. Guardium has significantly gone past the mark of acceptable every single time, as compared to their other competitors.

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it_user581697 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Security Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I did not evaluate other options. I am an IBM partner.

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FT
Information Security Analyst at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We were considering DbProtect but at that time, DbProtect had no support for Teradata.

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it_user541269 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Consultant /Data Security at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Before choosing this product, I evaluated Imperva products.

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it_user841929 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I don’t know because I am new in this company. I don’t know the history.

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it_user385986 - PeerSpot reviewer
Pre Sales Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We looked at the Oracle and Imperva solutions.

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Buyer's Guide
IBM Security Guardium Data Protection
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about IBM Security Guardium Data Protection. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.