IBM Security Guardium Data Protection Stability

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

It is a stable product. 

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

IBM Guardium Data Protection is working very smoothly, even during installation, so at the moment, my company hasn't experienced any stability issues, compatibility issues, and performance issues, so it's a stable solution.

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

IBM Guardium Data Protection is a stable application.

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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection
March 2024
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Alaeddin  Awwad - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Security Solutions at Mannai

In terms of stability, this is one of the top solutions. Our customers are happy with it.

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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 stable. 

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DL
Public Sector Specialist at Interactive Group

It is a stable solution. However, they could enable an in-built feature to track user activity for the applications connected to databases. When users enter credentials to authenticate themselves, Guardium should also log the activity and enter its database.

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it_user840906 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior information security analyst at PFG

It's pretty stable. It's like any other software, it has its ups and downs: bugs, or configuration issues or things that weren't built exactly in the best way for customers to use. Obviously, they need that kind of feedback from when it's in the environment. But overall, I think it's pretty stable.

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Ile Ristov - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Manager at InTec System

I rate IBM Security Guardium Data Protection a nine out of ten for stability.

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

Guardium is very stable. The only outages that we have had have been self-induced, which is hard to admit. As a platform, it provides great stability.

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DC
Operator at Halliburton

No, IBM Guardium is well designed and compatible with Windows-based computers.  

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

The solution has been pretty stable for us. 

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

In terms of stability, it is also stable and there is no bugs and glitches that we have faced complaints about

On a scale of 10 I will rate it 8 as there are some issues that usually arise during deployment but are usually fixed by patch updates.

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

The product is somewhat outdated, but it's stable.

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KA
Sales Director at Jordan Business Systems

The product is stable.

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

Once it was installed and implemented, it seemed to be a very stable product.

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it_user841977 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Security Engineer

It's stable. When I used this product back in 2007 it was challenging, but now it's it's stable.

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

Stability is average. There are frequently new issues with releases. As long as you stay a version or two behind, you are pretty stable. However, we have had some issues with patches breaking things unexpectedly in our environments.

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

This solution is stable, I don't believe there is another product that is more stable.

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

We have found the stability to be quite good. It doesn't crash or freeze. There are no bugs or glitches. Its performance has been very good so far.

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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 very stable. We don't seem to experience bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.

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

Stability has improved with the newer versions.

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

So far, so good. We've been using it for about two or three years right now, and we have had no issues. Once it was set up properly, it has run as it should.

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

Yes, scaling the product might be a tricky task as you have to configure parameters locally or collectors or agents.

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VN
Senior Manager at PT Permata Anugerah Abadi

The platform has good stability.

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AF
CyberSecurity Leader Specialist at KLNCIT

Guardium is stable.

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

I can say that it's a stable product. 

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

It was difficult implementing it, configuring it, getting it up and running and in production. However, since then, I believe it has stabilized.

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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

Yes there was the issue on the high CPU utilisation by Guardium services ,on the database host but IBM has introduce the Guardium service monitoring service(watch dog process) which auto restart the Guardium services when CPU utilisation reach the defined threshold percentage.

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

I have not had any issues with the stability.

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

It is a stable product. We just finished upgrading to version 10, and had no issues with the upgrade. We are excited about working with the newest version.

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

For the most part, it's pretty stable. We've had some issues recently that we're working through, on the agent software that runs on the databases.

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

I haven't heard of any issues. I think it's been pretty stable, once they got over the initial bumps. The bumps were just our staff knowing how much information needed to be monitored, and at what level. I think they were fluctuating between levels of granularity as well.

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QN
Sales leader at EFH

We have found the stability is very good.

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VD
Socio Director at RAMDIA

Its stability is very good. It is quite available all the time.

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AV
Information Technology Consultant at Aeries Technology Group

This is a reliable product.

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it_user841971 - PeerSpot reviewer
Guardium Engineer

The solution is very stable, but it has its challenges. 

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

We did experiences a few system crashes.

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

I think this is a stable solution. 

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

It is pretty good, though we have had some issues. Sometimes the performance is not good, and also sometimes we have sudden bugs causing difficulties. Therefore, it is hard for IBM to fix.

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

This solution is stable and reliable. 

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

The feedback that I have heard from customers, and my team, is that the solution is very stable. It does not require a lot of things after it is set up for the first time. Once it is fine-tuned, you do not need to do much other than generate and show reports.

At the same time, I do still hear complaints directly from customers about stability. Specifically, it has to do with making changes. If there is an S-TAP agent installed on the service then sometimes the configuration needs to be changed. This might be by adding a new rule or policy. After this, the server needs to be restarted. It is impossible to frequently stop and restart a service when it is in production.

My team justifies this by saying that it only happens infrequently, at a rate of perhaps once a year. However, the customers still see it as a very difficult task that makes their lives tough. Other than this, I have not heard any complaints about stability.

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it_user588594 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Software Presales Specialist

We had some minor issues with earlier versions around agent compatibility. These were solved through support.

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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 stability.

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

I'm not the administrator of the product so I don't know that I would be the best one to answer this. But from more of a consumer's perspective, the fact that the S-TAPs and such run on my systems, it has not caused us any problems; a little bit in the SQL Server space, but overall it has been good.

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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 stability issues.

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

We are about 50 to 60 percent there. A lot of that has to do with us implementing it a little better, and redesigning what we thought would be their protection. We need to do a bit more efficient architecture, as some things are coming down the pipeline for the roadmap of the product.

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

For the most part, it is stable. Depends on the year.

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

I'm pretty impressed with the stability. There was medium-sized initial effort getting it configured and set up and doing what we wanted it to do, but it just runs and we don't have to deal with it.

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

IBM Security Guardium is a mature product. Although it needs agents on the server to monitor their database or file traffic, we did not encounter serious issues so far.

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

There were issues with stability of the agent software in previous versions, but it is less of an issue now.

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

I did not encounter any major stability issues in the last three years, except a couple of minor issues with S-TAP agents.

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

Guardium is a stable system.

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

The solution is quite stable compared to the other solutions that we have worked with. However, it requires a lot of development, or it requires a lot of effort to make it deployable in a customer location, which makes it very difficult.

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it_user842892 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Stability is quite good. We had some problems, but support is very effective so we were able to solve them very quickly.

We had instability with reports, they were giving some errors. I don't know exactly what had happened because I wasn't the one involved, but we couldn't access reports.

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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 stability issues.

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

IBM Guardium Data Protection is stable.

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

Depending on the policy and rules applied, there is a need to increase the minimum requirements (RAM and storage - HD) for better operation and not to experience hardware slowdowns due to the high flow of traffic. IBM brings the "minimums" and "recommendation." From experience in versions 9x and 10x, when installing Guardium, it's important to verify the "recommendation" requirements of IBM for stability. It is worth mentioning that the requirements (minimums or recommendation) are different for Collector and aggregator.

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

Stability is very good. I don’t have downtime with this solution.

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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

We did encounter stability issues. Do not upgrade directly to the latest fix pack unless people have confirmed that it is stable.

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

It's very stable.

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

Some issues have been experienced but no big issues as such. The solution is 90% stable.

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

The stability depends, in part, on how much the client can give the appliance in terms of resources. Overall, I think that it's a really stable appliance, as long as you keep it up to date with all of the patches and updates.

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

I did not encounter any issues with stability.

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VG
Security Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The product is stable - during my time using it, I have not had any crash problems with the servers, and I haven't needed to do any restarts.

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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.