We performed a comparison between IBM Security Guardium Data Protection and Vormetric Application Crypto Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Imperva, Oracle and others in Database Security."The purpose of EBM Guardium is to monitor database activity and who is accessing it. This is the most valuable feature."
"Efficiency is key and IBM Guardium provides information in a heartbeat, but protects the data with military grade encryption."
"Audit Process Builder – Workflow generator to enhance audit tasks and compliance workflows."
"Its ability to find data."
"We have integrated IBM Guardium with IBM Watson Curator. They access Curator to identify and correlate other actions the user is doing to determine if this is a legitimate action or not."
"The product has proven to be flexible"
"It has automated a bunch of manual tasks, giving us insights into activities that we would not otherwise be able to capture."
"The solution supports a lot of databases."
"Transfer encryption is a great feature of Crypto Suite."
"More automation, user guides, and tips would make this solution better."
"It would be helpful, and convenient to improve the Chat support."
"It was difficult implementing it, configuring it, getting it up and running and in production. However, since then, I believe it has stabilized."
"Can't be used for a NoSQL database, which is limiting."
"I would like to see IBM Guardium have other encryption algorithms employed."
"If IBM Guardium Data Protection could find a way to not have a lot of coding and development required to get the solution up and running it would be an advantage. The information of the agent could improve, which is necessary for us to monitor the databases would be a great benefit."
"I'd like to see a smoother GUI interface for the CAS agent - CAS does configurations on the database - to interface better with the vulnerability assessments."
"There could be a feature to integrate and protect multiple databases. The local support services need improvements as well."
"Could be more agent-led with options for simplifying implementation."
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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 71 reviews while Vormetric Application Crypto Suite is ranked 6th in Data Masking with 1 review. IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2, while Vormetric Application Crypto Suite is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Security Guardium Data Protection writes "Provides visibility, has a single console that shows all information, and collector-aggregator capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vormetric Application Crypto Suite writes "Very user friendly with good security features including transfer encryption". IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault, Oracle Advanced Security, DataSunrise Database Security and Voltage SecureData Enterprise, whereas Vormetric Application Crypto Suite is most compared with Voltage SecureData Enterprise and Protegrity Data Security.
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IBM is reselling Vormetric. IBM Guardium Data Protection includes Vormetric as part of the Data Protection Family.