#1 most frequent
United States of America
43.2%180 installations of 417
What is IBM Guardium?
IBM Guardium is IBM's data security posture management solution, that aims to offer organizations comprehensive visibility, actionable insights and real-time controls to help users comply with regulations, preserve privacy and secure sensitive data no matter where it is stored.
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Screenshot of the IBM Guardium Data Protection dashboard showing all the features. One click can take you to databases or to data analytics.
Who Buys & Uses IBM Guardium
#1 most frequent
Finance and Insurance
36.8%156 installations of 424
“I personally, because in cyber I find the elements where there could be look for those behavioral problems indicator a cyber attack rather than being on the economic crime or fraud side of the businesses.”
#2 most frequent
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
18.2%77 installations of 424
#3 most frequent
Information
9.7%41 installations of 424
#2 most frequent
Brazil
6.7%28 installations of 417
#3 most frequent
India
4.3%18 installations of 417
Pros
- Robust capabilities in securing sensitive data and maintaining database integrity
- Effective real-time database activity monitoring and anomaly detection
- Strong threat detection and visualization for identifying potential risks
Cons
- Challenging to implement and requires significant time to master
- High cost, particularly concerning licensing fees
- Limited granularity in reporting capabilities (e.g., connection counts, table permissions)
IBM Guardium Review
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use IBM Guardium for both Data monitoring and for Vulnerability assessments. We started with a small scope of applications and have now made IBM Guardium a standard requirement for all [...] managed DB's. It is working great and is fullying integrated with our SIEM and Service Now for ticket creation and investigations.
Pros
- identifies failed logins
- Possible app issue
- monitors access to data
- identifies possible issues with CSS
Cons
- patching - ease of the process
- consistent labels in the GUI
- memory management in the appliances
Return on Investment
- allows us to monitor critical data
- Data protection is critical in banking - IBM Guardium allows us to better protect it.
- Still too soon in our deployment process to determine the actual business impact.
Guardium Overview
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
IBM Guardium provides us with the ability discover and identify data. Once we discover data, we have the ability to control access and lock data down. This is extremely valuable based on the rate that data is growing.
Pros
- Discovery & Classify Data
- Data Encryption
Cons
- User Interface
- Pricing (lower price)
Return on Investment
- The ability to discover and classify data is a huge time savings
- Pre Built templates for PCI / HIPPA are huge time savings
Alternatives Considered
Imperva Data Security
Other Software Used
IBM Verify, HashiCorp Vault
SBM-SME-Review.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
IBM Security Guardium is an excellent product for securing critical environments. I also appreciate the IBM GKLM, which's amazing, especially with the new version 5 that adds numerous new devices. Thanks for enhancing.
Pros
- We use it for our SQL database.
Cons
- Please add new databases.
Return on Investment
- Yes, it satisfies security compliance.
Alternatives Considered
IBM Storage Protect and IBM Storage Fusion
Other Software Used
IBM Storage Protect, IBM SAN24B-4, IBM Storage FlashSystem, IBM Storage Protect Plus, IBM Power
Best Ever
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use IBM Guarduim in all of our Data centers
Pros
- it protect sensitive data count different environments
- it works very well
Cons
- work well
- Great with fileystsmes
Return on Investment
- filesystem
- security
- data center
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
monitoring an analytics data for a client on finance sector, and goverment
Pros
- secure
- analitic
- fast
Cons
- on a bank
- government
- state
Return on Investment
- lost data
- data broke
Alternatives Considered
IBM Spectrum Control
Other Software Used
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Apache ActiveMQ, IBM AIX
