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IBM Guardium

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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.
Screenshot of IBM Guardium Data Protection: The S-TAP and GIM Dashboard gives real-time visibility into the health and performance of S-TAPs. It is used to track the status of different S-TAP versions, see database activity across inspection engines, and view detailed insights by operating system.
Screenshot of IBM Guardium DSPM: Discovery, Classification & Threat Monitoring - Automate cloud data security with discovery, classification, and continuous threat monitoring. This offers a unified view of sensitive data across cloud workloads (AWS, Azure, GCP) and SaaS (SharePoint, OneDrive, Slack, Google Drive, Jira, Confluence and more), understand its risk level, and ensure ongoing protection and compliance.
Screenshot of IBM Guardium DSPM: Discovery, Classification & Threat Monitoring - Automate cloud data security with discovery, classification, and continuous threat monitoring. This offers a unified view of sensitive data across cloud workloads (AWS, Azure, GCP) and SaaS (SharePoint, OneDrive, Slack, Google Drive, Jira, Confluence and more), understand its risk level, and ensure ongoing protection and compliance.
Screenshot of IBM Guardium DSPM: Discovery, Classification & Threat Monitoring - Automate cloud data security with discovery, classification, and continuous threat monitoring. This offers a unified view of sensitive data across cloud workloads (AWS, Azure, GCP) and SaaS (SharePoint, OneDrive, Slack, Google Drive, Jira, Confluence and more), understand its risk level, and ensure ongoing protection and compliance.

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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.

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IBM Guardium Review

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Lisa Wright
Cyber security Engineer in Engineering at Comerica Bank (1001-5000 employees employees)

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.

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Jim McDonough
President in Corporate at DataHub (11-50 employees employees)

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

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Mohammad Farooq
IBM Backup, Storage & Guardium implementation consultant in Information Technology at IBM Saudi Business Machines (501-1000 employees employees)

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

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Marvin Jones
System engineer in Engineering at Utanics (201-500 employees employees)

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

Thanks

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Arturo de Los Santos
Specialist IT in Professional Services at INCO SA (51-200 employees employees)

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

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