IBM Guardium vs. Sophos Intercept X for Server

IBM Guardium

IBM Guardium

103 Reviews and Ratings

Sophos Intercept X for Server

Sophos Intercept X for Server

46 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM Guardium	Score 8.6 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
Sophos Intercept X for Server	Score 7.3 out of 10	N/A	Sophos now offers Intercept X for Server, as a server-specific version of its popular endpoint security solution, featuring advanced malware detection and prevention, ransomware protection, and hacker deterrents.	N/A

Pricing

IBM Guardium

Sophos Intercept X for Server

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
IBM Guardium	Sophos Intercept X for Server
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	IBM Guardium	Sophos Intercept X for Server
Considered Both Products	IBM Guardium John Jairo Guaña Morales Product Engineers 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? MD Marcello Donaire Security Delivery Manager Chose IBM Guardium No other products, only Guardium. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Guardium Especially cost, we use both products, but cost, we use Imperva a lot and other databases, but cloud is where we are really looking for a new differentiator. That's where I would say we still don't have anybody in that space here. Especially it can identify the risks related to … Incentivized Helpful? TR Timothy Russell Cybersecurity Director Chose IBM Guardium Well, like I say, there's a couple out there that do this kind of thing as well. So TRX being one of the ones that do something in this space too. Also very good product. I don't think there's a lot between them to be honest. We have IBM as a partner in my organization so they … Incentivized Helpful? Sergio Okida Project manager 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? BK Bassam Karam Technical Engineering Manager Chose IBM Guardium Guardium is part of our main product. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Guardium After we did the comparison between imperva and IBM Guardium we decided to buy Guardium Incentivized Helpful? Mirosław Heimrath Expert Security Specialist Chose IBM Guardium It is possible to connect the product with SIEM and SOAR systems. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Guardium Guardium stacks up well with other products. So far we have not seen something that would improve enough for us to leave the platform Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Guardium IBM is the industry leader in DAM domain. Cost was also a factor. Technical support was good. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Guardium Guardium, I believe, does a lot more than other products I have used. Incentivized Helpful? Md Masudul Hassan Lecturer 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 Anonymous 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 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 Anonymous 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? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Guardium We needed MSSQL database level information which McAfee DAM could only provide at instance level. Incentivized Helpful? Brandon Lowry Cyber Security Specialist Chose IBM Guardium IBM Security Guardium uses advanced technologies, such as behavioral analysis and machine learning, to detect and respond to security threats in real time. This enables more accurate detection and faster response to threats compared to other similar software. Incentivized Helpful? Telmo Fonseca TI specialist Chose IBM Guardium Easy to configure and supports the latest versions of OS like AIX 7.2. Incentivized Helpful? Anshuman Bhatnagar Security Specialist 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? DC Deivis Campos Cybersecurity Analist Chose IBM Guardium Almost a perfect integration. But you need to be skillful in both solutions to make things clear. Incentivized Helpful? ROHIT GOYAL Database Security Administrator Chose IBM Guardium Navigating through GUI is very useful Incentivized Helpful? Mansi Talwar Senior Consultant Chose IBM Guardium IBM Security Guardium is a perfect tool that is a little bit more costly than other tools available on the market. But as compared to features this tool provides a lot of features that can help to detect the anomalies in the data and even help to identify the advanced threats … Incentivized Helpful? MC Mehak Chawla Marketing Associate Chose IBM Guardium IBM Security Guardium has extended capabilities of automatically locating databases and assessing the vulnerabilities and configuration flaws in them. IBM Security Guardium stacks up against other products due to the additional features that can be easily added to your IT … Incentivized Helpful? Sourabh Yaduvanshi Solution Architect Chose IBM Guardium When compared to the others, IBM Security Guardium offers a decent platform. In South Africa, IBM Security Guardium users are ecstatic, therefore it's a winner. The agent's stability is superior to that of others. It outperforms the competition (Vulnerability Assessment, … Incentivized Helpful? Zinnur Dikici, Msc Information Security and Risk Team Lead 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?	Sophos Intercept X for Server Verified User Anonymous Chose Sophos Intercept X for Server Does a great job protecting our systems. Email security has more features and easy to manage. You don't have to have your own server to run the endpoint security. Auto updates the endpoint and servers. With a Managed detect response team that does human threat hunting. Overall … Incentivized Helpful? MC Mehak Chawla Marketing Associate Chose Sophos Intercept X for Server Sophos Intercept X has proven to be a valuable (XDR) tool. It stacks up against its competitors due to its ability to work across all devices and understand network issues. Sophos Intercept X provides a single console from which you can manage all your security applications … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sophos Intercept X for Server Sophos Intercept X for Server's centralized management is installed in the cloud vs ESET which is installed locally. Having the system in the cloud allows admins the ability to troubleshoot and work with the system from anywhere without having to connect in. Sophos uses … Incentivized Helpful? Christopher Fritz Senior IT Supporter Chose Sophos Intercept X for Server We aleady had few of the applications from Sophos, so it was a natural decision to try out Sophos Intercept X for Server. So for this specific case we went for the trial to check the performance and found that it did an amazing job. That's also why we didn't evaluate any other … Incentivized Helpful? MA Morgan Anderson Network Administrator Chose Sophos Intercept X for Server We have been utilizing Sophos Intercept X for Server for many years now, but previously we used Symantec. This was before a push for everything into the cloud - so I feel a fair comparison of the products is not possible. Symantec worked for us at the time, but I'm not fluent … Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	IBM Guardium	Sophos Intercept X for Server
Likelihood to Recommend	9.6 (0 ratings)	8.1 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	5.3 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.5 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM Guardium	Sophos Intercept X for Server
Likelihood to Recommend	It checks many boxes when it comes to security. It allows you to see all the DB activity that goes on, report on it, and send it to SIEM. The analytics part extends this product even more. The investigation dashboard makes it easier to find outliers or specifics without running queries or reports. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	We recently had a malware incident in our organization where we lost some of our files from the system and we were not able to detect the threat. That's when we deployed Sophos. Sophos Intercept X ticks all the boxes. It has helped prevent unauthorized programs from running and provides a managed threat response. The best part is its ability to recover files automatically. Incentivized MC Mehak Chawla Marketing Associate Read full review
Pros	when businesses use IBM Guardium Insights to visualize data risks, it can help them find and prioritize threats better by putting all of its features in one place, it might make data security easier to manage and keep under control it is easy to use and doesn't mean anything Incentivized AS Aafaq Sikandar Founder & CEO Read full review	Baseline policies Central management Secure Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Large activity reports are easier to generate that is capable of performing activity profiling to learn to identify abnormal activity that has the ability to integrate with reporting tools that has a mobile interface los reportes de actividades grandes Sean mas faciles de generar que sea capaz de realizar un profiling de actividades para aprender a identificar actividad anormal que Tenga la posibilidad de integrarse con herramientas de reporteria que Tenga una interfaz movil Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Reporting isn't as detailed as it could be. The wait times for support are very long. There is no way to push the installer out. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	It is a perfect system to detect problems that we do not see manually, it is light, with a very simple learning curve and with great protection of our data, we will use it forever. Incentivized Meena Prasad Information Technology Security Analyst Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	It might look complex in the beginning but once you get hold of it by going through all of the documentation then it seems to be very smooth. The configuration is comparatively easy and the user can understand it on their own without any external help. The overall learning curve is Ok. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	There has been great support coming from IBM. It is easy to use and a great way to keep our data secure. I would recommend this to other possible users and if I were to move companies, I would recommend we use this there too. Thank you Incentivized AY Allyson Ylvisaker Case Manager Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	IBM Security Guardium uses advanced technologies, such as behavioral analysis and machine learning, to detect and respond to security threats in real time. This enables more accurate detection and faster response to threats compared to other similar software Incentivized Brandon Lowry Cyber Security Specialist Read full review	We have been utilizing Sophos Intercept X for Server for many years now, but previously we used Symantec. This was before a push for everything into the cloud - so I feel a fair comparison of the products is not possible. Symantec worked for us at the time, but I'm not fluent in current offerings from them. Incentivized MA Morgan Anderson Network Administrator Read full review
Return on Investment	Security and monitoring are important in a financial institution Constant visibility and auditing of companies is easy with IBM Guardium. la seguridad y monitored es important en una entidad financiera la visibilidad y auditoria constante de empresas es facil con IBM Guardium Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Prevented virus/hacker attacks on our servers Have blocked applications that we do not allow Saved time on tracking virus, ransomware etc. Incentivized Christopher Fritz Senior IT Supporter Read full review
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