IBM Guardium vs. Imperva Data Security

IBM Guardium

103 Reviews and Ratings

Imperva Data Security

11 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM Guardium	Score8.5 out of 10	N/A	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.	N/A
Imperva Data Security	Score7.3 out of 10	N/A	Imperva Data Security (formerly SecureSphere for Data) is an enterprise application and file security suite, combining database and file security management and monitoring under its database.	N/A

Pricing

IBM Guardium

Imperva Data Security

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Pricing Offerings
IBM Guardium	Imperva Data Security
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Optional

No setup fee

Pricing is dependent based on data source environment.

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	IBM Guardium	Imperva Data Security
Considered Both Products	IBM John Jairo Guaña Morales Product Engineers in Information Technology at Sinergyhard (Computer Hardware, 11-50 employees) Chose IBM Guardium IBM Security Guardium is better with its compatibility and integration methods and compatibility matrix, the other products don't cover all the database motors that IBM Guardium can do, regarding to brand, versions and editions of the database motors, IBM support and licensing … Incentivized Helpful? Sergio Okida Project manager at Claro (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees) Chose IBM Guardium Imperva did not give any expectations of working together with Oracle ksplice O imperva não deu expectativas de trabalhar em conjunto com o oracle ksplice Incentivized Helpful? Mirosław Heimrath Expert Security Specialist in Finance and Accounting at Nordea (Banking, 10,001+ employees) Chose IBM Guardium It is possible to connect the product with SIEM and SOAR systems. Incentivized Helpful? Md Masudul Hassan Lecturer in Professional Services at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University (Education Management, 501-1000 employees) Chose IBM Guardium The integration is excellent. Versatile deployment options are an advantage of using it. The ability to easily complete vulnerability assessments with comparable scores and observe activity in our data environment is one of the best features. In order to improve our security … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Guardium In my opinion, IBM Security Guardium is more accurate and powerful that the above, and more robust. Incentivized Helpful? FURKAN GÖKCAN Security Engineer in Information Technology at Exclusive Networks (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose IBM Guardium You can not learn Imperva within 1 year. The interface is complicated and difficult to understand. Additionally, Impervan's product scope is not as broad as Guardium's. Guardium is ahead in this regard with its other modules. At Imperva, product admin and access manager are not … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Guardium If I compare with imperva Guardium is more efficient. First of all GUI is more useful. Documentation is more than imperva etc. Incentivized Helpful? Telmo Fonseca TI specialist in Information Technology at Getnet (Financial Services, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose IBM Guardium Easy to configure and supports the latest versions of OS like AIX 7.2. Incentivized Helpful? Anshuman Bhatnagar Security Specialist in Engineering at Tata Consultancy Services (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose IBM Guardium IBM Security Guardium provides many more features and capabilities than all the other tools evaluated for this decision. To begin with, there are limited databases that are supported by other database security tools. None of the other evaluated tools have the ability to mask … Incentivized Helpful? Zinnur Dikici, Msc Information Security and Risk Team Lead in Information Technology at Vakıf Katılım (Banking, 1001-5000 employees) Chose IBM Guardium The architecture of IBM Guardium give us flexibility to access activities, create policies and management. Easy deployment and stabilization of product can be other reason for preference. Can be easy manage and track activities' backup node of databases in a disaster recovery … Incentivized Helpful? Adem Çeltik Database Security Specialist in Engineering at Exclusive Networks Turkey (Security and Investigations, 51-200 employees) Chose IBM Guardium IBM Guardium has sufficient platform supports comparing the others. The IBM Guardium users are very happy in Turkey, so it is a defacto. Agent stability is better than others. It has more capabilities than others(Vulnerability Assessment,Database Discovery, Data Classification, … Incentivized Helpful? Jim McDonough President in Corporate at DataHub (Information Services, 11-50 employees) Chose IBM Guardium Guardium excels in its broad data protection and compliance monitoring, while Imperva offers good cloud data security. Guardium seems to be a much more robust platform. IBM is also investing heavily in AI for Guardium. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Guardium first of all, these products having all the capability but what is best suited for our environment we selected that as our primary goal to get monitor all the database activity then we should have its Realtime alerts and notification then again it should be in budget and … Incentivized Helpful?	Imperva, a Thales company No answer on this topic
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	IBM Guardium	Imperva Data Security
Likelihood to Recommend	9.6 (36 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	5.4 (33 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.5 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)