IBM Security Guardium Data Protection Scalability

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

It is scalable, you just integrate other auxiliary IBM products with it, back to the security line. Currently, 12 users are using it for administration and monitoring purposes.

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

In the future, we will scale IBM Guardium Data Protection if we have the need, but right now, we are not in the scaling phase. We're only implementing and working with what we have currently.

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DevidharsanJ - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Engineering Consultant at Optum

The scalability and stability are excellent. 

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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection
March 2024
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Peter Arabomen - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Engineering, Team Lead at Fidelity Bank Plc

IBM Guardium Data Protection is a scalable application.

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Alaeddin  Awwad - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Security Solutions at Mannai

The solution is scalable; scalability depends on the number of databases more than number of users. Accounts can be expanded without any impact on performance. 

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

The solution is scalable

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DL
Public Sector Specialist at Interactive Group

I rate the platform's scalability an eight out of ten.

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it_user840906 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior information security analyst at PFG

I think it scales pretty well. It can run on most of the database platforms currently out there. That is something we really like as a feature, because we try to hit everything in our environment to make sure we're meeting those regulations.

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Ile Ristov - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Manager at InTec System

Our clients are mostly enterprise businesses.

I rate IBM Security Guardium Data Protection ten out of ten for scalability.

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

Guardium should meet our needs going forward. 

We have only been using Guardium for a short period of time, so we had some growth problems. It is just like growing into your body. Your knees start to hurt after a little while, but once you get through that growth spurt, you get your win and you keep going and you are able to grow and expand. I think the way we have it implemented, we will be able to grow and scale as the organization grows. 

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DC
Operator at Halliburton

I have not had nor do I know of any such issues. I believe the design of IBM Guardium is perfect for small to large scale settings, and does not reduce accessibility to content with on the fly encryption.

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MW
DBA at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Our environment is pretty small for scalability purposes, so scalability is not relevant. In terms of the collectors agency, you can always add them. From that perspective, it's scalable, but it introduces more complexity because the more collectors you have, the more management is required. We don't allow people to connect and use self-service. We produce reports for the application teams from the tool ourselves, which is why we only have around 15 users involved in deployment, maintenance and reporting.

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Olawale Ayuba - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Management GRC and Privacy Solution at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees

The product is very scalable and we deal with majorly enterprise client. Therefore we have to make sure that the product is scalable.

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VT
Inforomatica tech lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

If you implement it on the cloud, it's scalable. But once you scale the solution, dumping the business rules, establishing the configured profile, and maintaining those profiles is a very tedious process. Rather than a centralized solution, it would be better to have a distributed environment. In that case, different servers and different nodes, with each node having control over some of the applications, would be better. 

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KA
Sales Director at Jordan Business Systems

The tool is scalable.

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

This is definitely a scalable product. You can build out a basic stand-alone architecture with one collector all the way to enterprise wide architecture that covers multiple datacenters and continents.

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it_user841977 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Security Engineer

The scalability is not that easy to use because, you need a lot of knowledge about it, on data security; basically you need to know where your sensitive data is. We tried to use Guardium for that, to find out with the Discovery feature, but it didn't work, because we had a lot of irregular data. We found it ourselves, but Guardium is protecting it; so that's good for us.

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

Scalability is very good. You could easily throw it onto a VM or add additional hardware. One central manager supports about a hundred managed units, so scalability is excellent.

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SW
Sr. Network Specialist at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The solution is part of IP so you can scale it.

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BH
DBA Dept. Manager at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

The solution is very scalable. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so easily.

Only the administrators really deal with the solution at this time. There are four of us.

We did pay for it, therefore we do plan to continue to use it for the foreseeable future.

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

The product's scalability is fine, however, the requirements for scalability make it somewhat limited, as you will need to add hardware resources in order to expand it. Other than that, yes, the scalability is there, and you can use it, but you need to keep in mind that there is hardware that you have to have in place.

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it_user844467 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP Systems Engg at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It scales well. The newer versions scale very well compared to the earlier versions.

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

It appears to be very scalable, especially on the mainframe. On the open systems side there are a lot more servers out there, mainframe is more centralized. On the mainframe it's very scalable. We're only using one percent of it right now, what we're monitoring. But we feel that with the power of the mainframe, that can go up as much as we need.

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

Personally, I have not been very involved with IBM Guardium Data Protection for the last couple of years. However, I think we've had some problems scaling it, but I'm not the right person, really, to answer questions about scalability. My understanding is that there has been some frustration with scaling it, but those may be local issues.

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

Product looks easily scalable.

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VN
Senior Manager at PT Permata Anugerah Abadi

We have almost 10,000 IBM Security Guardium Data Protection in our organization. I rate its scalability a nine out of ten.

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AF
CyberSecurity Leader Specialist at KLNCIT

Guardium is scalable.

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Md Saiful Hyder - PeerSpot reviewer
AGM, Enterprise Solutions at Omgea Exim Ltd

Scalability is no problem. 

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AA
App Mainframe And Storage at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We haven't really tested the scalability with it as yet, we're really only encrypting a very small percentage of our data.

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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

If you follow the recommended configuration as per the IBM and correct capacity sizing done there is no issues.

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MH
Junior Software Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

IBM Guardium Data Protection is a scalable solution.

Currently, as we are conducting PoCs, I am the only user. We created an in-house environment at my office. It is not yet ready to be used at the commercial level.

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it_user844479 - PeerSpot reviewer
People Leader Of Cyber Strategy And Solutions at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

It should meet our need going forward as it is a huge product. We have scanned 7000 SQL databases and 1500 Oracle Databases.

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it_user842901 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Architect at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The scalability is good.

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it_user631725 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We started out with as much as we could from the beginning. I don't think there have been any issues. It's our internal skill set and maturity with the tool that have been growing. I think it has TAPs in every piece of our data in our datacenter, so it's already been able to scale to what we need.

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QN
Sales leader at EFH

All that is necessary for scaling IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is to purchase a license. We have a lot of customers since we are in the finance industry in Vietnam.

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VD
Socio Director at RAMDIA

Its scalability is perfect. In Mexico, we did most of the implementations for medium and large customers. Our company implemented this solution for banks and telecommunication companies.

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AV
Information Technology Consultant at Aeries Technology Group

It is easy to scale. There are more than 5,000 users in total, although it does not run on all of the servers or user workstations.

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SK
VP - Enterprise Security & Cloud Business at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's easy to scale this solution. 

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

Scalability is good.

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

This solution is scalable. That's one of the missions of this product—it can scale. 

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

This is a highly scalable solution, but it requires a lot of resources.

For example, I know of a big bank that has been a long-time user of this solution, but they were looking to replace it because they need forty-four Guardium severs in order to monitor their entire database farm. They feel that this is too much and will cost a lot. They do not have a new solution at the moment, although they are looking at other options.

Before this solution existed, people did not have really have anything in place. It was a new concept and it became critical when people came to understand database risks. In 2011 or 2012, many banks started to use Guardium, and since then, it has been spreading to other sectors such as government, transportation, and healthcare.

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it_user588594 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Software Presales Specialist

Guardium scales easily. Simply add another collector appliance and the system will balance the load across all available appliances.

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

We have encountered issues with scalability.

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

I think that it's very scalable. You can spin up new Collectors and Aggregators as needed so, I'd say it's sufficient.

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

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

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it_user844488 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Analyst at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The scalability is not an issue, though it is not the easiest thing to scale. However, I seen the coming roadmap, where the scalability will be easier.

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

It has scaled. It was pulling teeth, but it does scale. 

We taught IBM about the limits of the product. They did not think there were limits to the product. There were, because we do very extensive testing of performance. We can tell you when a product is going to break. Their development thought this was valuable because they do not have the facilities to do this sort of extensive testing.

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it_user842865 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Administrator at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

We run it on the mainframe and on the midrange platforms and we haven't had any performance issues of any kind. We haven't really had to scale it. We pick and choose what's important to us, so we don't monitor everything. If we were going to monitor everything it would probably be an issue, something we would have to address.

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it_user589479 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Consultant at a energy/utilities company

The only issues are when users have not maintained the collection policies or the archiving and aggregation policies correctly. Units can fill up if not maintained and managed.

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

The solution is easily scalable.

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CR
Head, Cybersecurity at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

You can scale Guardium up and down according to your needs.

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ND
Technical Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

IBM Guardium Data Protection is scalable.

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

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

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MS
Security Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Guardium is scalable. I've been able to integrate it with other solutions.

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MS
Security Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The solution is scalable.

We have approximately six people using the solution.

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SM
Information Security Analyst at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The two major Database Audit and Protection (DAP) solutions are IBM Guardium and Imperva SecureSphere. There are two modes of operation of these solutions: remote agent and sniffer (out-of-band). I recommended using the remote agent to obtain direct access captures on servers. 

Note that in non-mainframe environments, both solutions are scalable. For the mainframe environment, Guardium has updated installation agents with the latest kernels and releases. This makes a big difference in companies with mainframes, so it is necessary to keep the technology pack updated.

Regardless of the mode of operation, when increasing the number of servers monitored it is important to re-evaluate or perform new sizing. The possible number of databases and database servers which can be monitored by Guardium is high. For me, this is a differentiator of IBM.

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it_user618123 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Consultant, Pre-Sales Manager, Project Leader at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

There were no scalability issues.

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it_user844485 - PeerSpot reviewer
President at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

It's scalable.

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

We have not encountered any scalability issues.

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TA
Information Security Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I have done at least one really large-scale deployments and my impression is that it scales really well. 

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it_user593442 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Specialist/Consultant Ibm at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The system is scalable.

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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.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.