We performed a comparison between Fortra's Vera and IBM Security Guardium Data Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Imperva, Oracle and others in Database Security."Vera encryption is the most valuable feature."
"The vulnerability assessment is a valuable feature."
"Easy to set up data activity monitoring solution that provides competent technical support. Scalable, stable, and has good performance."
"The platform provides data protection from internal and external threats."
"It's allowing us to be more proactive than reactive on alerts and access rights and types of resources that are being hit. Before, there were a lot of different solutions, but this expanded that out and made it a more holistic solution. It provides centralization of monitoring, instead of multiple, disparate applications. It definitely allows more economies of scale, streamlining, less fragmented use."
"The most valuable features are the reporting and data-level access control."
"The most valuable feature is the GUI, the interface. It also interfaces well with REST API, if you want to automate some of the commands."
"The tech support is very knowledgeable."
"The most valuable feature I have found is the performance of client monitoring. The other competitors are unable to do this."
"The additional improvement can be done as the issues are encountered."
"Additional improvement can be done as the issues are encountered."
"The main issue I have with IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is the support. It's not good."
"The documentation could be better."
"It will not go as fast as you want. "
"The solution lacks control over database security."
"The backup and recovery is very resource-hungry and requires a huge amount of storage capacity."
"I would like to see AI and machine learning added in the future."
"An area for improvement would be the user interface - currently, it takes around two to three months to become comfortable using it."
"The biggest complaint that I hear from customers and users is that using this solution requires database skills, yet it is a security and monitoring tool."
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Fortra's Vera is ranked 11th in Database Security with 1 review while IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 71 reviews. Fortra's Vera is rated 9.0, while IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortra's Vera writes "Has good encryption features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Security Guardium Data Protection writes "Provides visibility, has a single console that shows all information, and collector-aggregator capabilities". Fortra's Vera is most compared with , whereas IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault, Oracle Advanced Security, DataSunrise Database Security and Vormetric Application Crypto Suite.
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