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IBM Guardium Suite Overview

What is IBM Guardium?

IBM Security Guardium can help you take a smarter, more adaptive, integrated approach to safeguarding critical data across hybrid, multicloud environments—with broad visibility and monitoring, actionable insights and remediation controls that support your data security journey.

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1911
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IBM offers a wide range of technology and consulting services; a broad portfolio of middleware for collaboration, predictive analytics, software development and systems management; and the world's most advanced servers and supercomputers.


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What do you like best about IBM Guardium Data Protection?

I've used Guardium Data Protection for Databases. It's a great tool that monitors data access and takes action against threats. I enjoyed the using navigation bar in UI v.10. Great advantage are predefined out-of-the box policies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Guardium Data Protection?

We deployed IBM Guradium Data Protection for databases on AS400. The installation was not straight forward, but we manage to create custom-made reports on user data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Guardium Data Protection:

Great tool for securing database Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Guardium Data Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?

Protecting critical data in customer database. It monitors who and when is making changes on critical data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sebastian G.
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What do you like best about IBM Guardium Data Protection?

The end result. After you apply the policies the databases are really protected, it allows your user to increase the level of automation gradually while they improve their internal processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Guardium Data Protection?

The way to configure it and visualize the data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Guardium Data Protection:

You'll need and expert to install it and, if you can afford it, get a third party to manage it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Guardium Data Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?

You can trust that once that policies are applied, there is no way to circumvent it's protection.

Compliance needs are fulfilled for the databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mohsin A.
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What do you like best about IBM Guardium Data Protection?

Data protection , compliance monitoring , and vulnerability scanning capabilities in a single product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Guardium Data Protection?

Query builder section is too difficult to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Guardium Data Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?

Achieved GDPR and PCI compliance, have great insight into databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Issam I.
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Data Security Lead
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about IBM Guardium Data Protection?

Logging and monitoring capabilities

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What do you dislike about IBM Guardium Data Protection?

IBM Security Guardium is not appropriate for monitoring applications traffic, because when you want to monitor application traffic, you cannot define the end user easily, and the SQL activities are difficult to interpret the jobs on the application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Guardium Data Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?

Guardium is able to monitor user activity to detect and respond to potential threats in real time. Using Guardium helps to identify and protect against internal and external threats through monitoring and auditing, vulnerability management, data transformation, real-time security policies, and intelligent reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Guardium Data Protection?

The compliance standards, it's monitoring mechanisms and support provided for product. Learning the tool is also very easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Guardium Data Protection?

To troubleshoot using command prompt, the commands to be used are application specific and the output of any commands would be downloaded as a zip folder with requested output. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Guardium Data Protection:

This is a beneficial tool. If the data to be safeguard is large and sensitive can go for it, since it offers good support and many features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Guardium Data Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have worked for securing and automating the data from various platforms of databases and applications. The monitoring and automating/scheduling mechanisms for storing and accessing the data actually helps. The way of configuring alerts, upgrading few components, vulnerability acessments etc., helps to safeguard the data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mohak S.
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What do you like best about IBM Guardium Data Protection?

Customisation of policies according to organisations standard and security to confidential data captured by the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Guardium Data Protection?

Installation of GIM agent is biggest challenge so far for huge organisations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Guardium Data Protection:

This is the best database activity monitoring solution we havein the market. Lots of big companies are implementing Guardium solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Guardium Data Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?

All the activities related to Database can be monitored with this tool. In addition you can configure S-GATE feature of the tool which provides you additional security to the database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hitesh J.
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What do you like best about IBM Guardium Data Protection?

Database security Vendor assessment, end to end implementation of Guardium environment for clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Guardium Data Protection?

I found this product leader considering the features it provides, database activity monitoring, VA, discovery, Entitlement reports, etc. the only thing I consider not up to the mark is limited reporting capability.c Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Guardium Data Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?

Use cases like, DBA should not have access to critical commercial tables, VA, block access to sensitive data by users who should not access it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rushikesh G.
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What do you like best about IBM Guardium Data Protection?

Easy configuration and management of any application with IBM security Guardium. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Guardium Data Protection?

Documentation which gives information about configuration and other information of the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Guardium Data Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have maintaining huge amount of that so I need to follow GDPR guidelines to secure GDPR data for this I am using this product I can solve my problem very good way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Guardium Data Protection?

Database monitoring and compliance regulations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Guardium Data Protection?

There is no option to uninstall guardium agents from GUI. You need server access for uninstalling the agents Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Guardium Data Protection:

It is a usefull product to monitor your databases. We can block all kind of unwanted access Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Guardium Data Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?

Now we can monitor all activities of databases including what commands DBA is running and if any data is going outside the premises. Moreover, for compliance perspective we get aitomated reports. The main feature we use incluse s-gate where we only allow w access tp white listed users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Guardium Data Protection?

the simplicity and the easy of use for the product , It very user friendly and provides the deep down security to the database and help them comply the compliances Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Guardium Data Protection?

litlle bit extensive and not easy to find options in between the buttons and menus Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Guardium Data Protection:

must try to safeguard the database Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Guardium Data Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?

the decured database and able to comply Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.