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Data security platforms (DSPs) combine data discovery, policy definition and policy enforcement across data silos. Policy enforcement capabilities include format-preserving encryption, tokenization and dynamic data masking. These capabilities can be delivered through connectors, agents, proxies and APIs.
Business requirements to leverage data and share data, for example for AI/ML use cases, require data security controls and highly-granular data access which is provisioned fast and humanly understandable. Tight-fitting data access and security controls allow you to reveal and share (leverage) more of your data. However, organizations face sufficient complexity when it comes to provisioning and rightsizing entitlements and data security controls. This extends to data privacy as well as analytics governance and ethics.
The DSP delivers most of the required components critical to enabling good data governance and optimized data security controls while preventing the exponential increase of data access and policy rules.

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IBM Guardium

Engineering cibersecurity

Altas capacidades, seguridad completa a nivel de base de datos, gestion de casos de uso en tiempo real 

High capabilities, complete database-level security, real-time use case management

50M - 250M USD

500M - 1B USD

<50M USD

1B - 3B USD

3B - 10B USD

250M - 500M USD

10B - 30B USD

30B + USD

Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees

Gov't/PS/ED 5,000 - 50,000 Employees

SECURITY ARCHITECT

IBM Guardium offers strong data security and compliance capabilities with real-time monitoring and auditing across databases and cloud platforms. However, for global organizations with complex architectures, it is a challenge to leverage its capabilities and there is a steep learning curve for its complex user interface. Maintenance will require support from the vendor.

Group Product Manager

O IBM Guardium nos possibilita blindar e monitorar banco de dados de escopos prioritários com total conformidade com a LGPD e auditoria e compliance, aplicando inteligência em sua governança.

IBM Guardium enables us to protect and monitor priority-scope databases in full compliance with the LGPD (Brazilian General Data Protection Law) and audit and compliance, applying intelligence to their governance.

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Favorable Review

Intelligent monitoring and protection of databases with IBM Guardium.

Critical Review

Real-Time Data Protection Present Alongside Difficult User Interface And Maintenance Needs

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