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IBM Guardium

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What is IBM Guardium?

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.

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IBM Guardium DSPM: Data security posture management

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Product Details

What is IBM Guardium?

Whether focusing on data use, protection, governance, or reporting, some businesses need a solution that supports a zero-trust approach to data security across its lifecycle on-premises or in the cloud. The IBM Guardium portfolio protects sensitive and regulated data across fragmented environments. Here’s a peek at the products within the Guardium portfolio:


IBM Guardium Data Security Center protects data from current and emerging risks, including AI and cryptographic attacks, through a unified experience. By offering five modules to help manage the data security lifecycle, from discovery to remediation, for all data types and across all data environments. It empowers security teams across the organization to collaboratively manage data vulnerabilities and risks―amid evolving regulations.

  • A free trial is available for Guardium DSC here: link


Guardium Data Security Center modules:

IBM Guardium AI Security helps organizations to manage the security risk of sensitive AI data and AI models. It is used to discover AI deployments, mitigate vulnerabilities in AI model and protect sensitive data, while meeting regulatory requirements.

  • A free trial is available for Guardium AI Security here: link

IBM Guardium Data Detection and Response (DDR) empowers organizations to protect data across hybrid cloud environments. Its advanced analytics identify critical threats, prioritize responses, and automate remediation actions.

  • A free sandbox is available for Guardium DDR here: link

IBM Guardium Data Compliance helps organizations to move through regulatory compliance and audit requirements more quickly and easily, safeguarding regulated data wherever it resides.

  • A free sandbox is available for Guardium Data Compliance here: link

IBM Guardium Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) enhances the organization’s data security posture by harnessing autonomous, AI-powered data discovery and classification, securing sensitive data across cloud environments and SaaS applications, and protecting it against data breaches and leakage.

  • A free trial is available for Guardium DSPM here: link

IBM Guardium Quantum Safe continuously monitors an enterprise's cryptography use, uncovers cryptographic vulnerabilities, and prioritizes remediation to secure your data from both conventional and quantum-enabled risks.


Legacy Guardium products:

IBM Guardium Data Protection discovers and classifies sensitive data from across the enterprise, providing real-time data activity monitoring and advanced user behavior analytics to help discover unusual activity around sensitive data. An Interactive Demo for Guardium Data Protection is available here

IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager centralizes, simplifies, and automates the encryption key management process to help protect encrypted data and simplify encryption key management. Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager helps customers meet regulations such as PCI DSS, Sarbanes-Oxley, and HIPAA by providing access control, key rotation, and other automated key lifecycle management processes. A Free Trial for Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager is available here

IBM Guardium Vulnerability Assessment scans data infrastructures such as databases, data warehouses, and big data environments to detect vulnerabilities and suggests remedial actions. This vulnerability assessment tool identifies exposures such as missing patches, weak passwords, unauthorized changes, and misconfigured privileges.

IBM Guardium Screenshots

Screenshot of the IBM Guardium Data Protection dashboard showing all the features. One click can take you to databases or to data analytics.Screenshot of IBM Guardium Data Protection: The S-TAP and GIM Dashboard gives real-time visibility into the health and performance of S-TAPs. It is used to track the status of different S-TAP versions, see database activity across inspection engines, and view detailed insights by operating system.Screenshot of IBM Guardium DSPM: Discovery, Classification & Threat Monitoring - Automate cloud data security with discovery, classification, and continuous threat monitoring. This offers a unified view of sensitive data across cloud workloads (AWS, Azure, GCP) and SaaS (SharePoint, OneDrive, Slack, Google Drive, Jira, Confluence and more), understand its risk level, and ensure ongoing protection and compliance.Screenshot of IBM Guardium DSPM: Discovery, Classification & Threat Monitoring - Automate cloud data security with discovery, classification, and continuous threat monitoring. This offers a unified view of sensitive data across cloud workloads (AWS, Azure, GCP) and SaaS (SharePoint, OneDrive, Slack, Google Drive, Jira, Confluence and more), understand its risk level, and ensure ongoing protection and compliance.Screenshot of IBM Guardium DSPM: Discovery, Classification & Threat Monitoring - Automate cloud data security with discovery, classification, and continuous threat monitoring. This offers a unified view of sensitive data across cloud workloads (AWS, Azure, GCP) and SaaS (SharePoint, OneDrive, Slack, Google Drive, Jira, Confluence and more), understand its risk level, and ensure ongoing protection and compliance.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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.

BigID, AWS Security Hub, and Oracle Security Monitoring and Analytics are common alternatives for IBM Guardium.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.5.

The most common users of IBM Guardium are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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IBM Guardium Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 30, 2025
TR
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Guardium
5 years of experience
I think the product's really good at, actually it's probably like 70 30 in favor of integrity and counter fraud and if you use it in that space as opposed to necessarily being all about cyber attacks because it's not millions of ways you can attack a database from a security perspective.

Bassams Review.

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 14, 2025
BK
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Guardium
13 years of experience
I guess support can be more proactive, especially since Guardium is considered a regulatory requirement, and case resolution should be faster.

IBM Guardium Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 05, 2025
JM
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Guardium
10 years of experience
We are working with banks and insurance companies and the product is excellent for protect database for complaints relation with the government and the industry.

IBM Guardium Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 05, 2025
MD
Vetted Review
IBM Guardium
3 years of experience
For less appropriate, I didn't find one yet because the Guardiam solution are specified for the protection. And all the enterprise in Chile need this. So it's really, really important.

IBM Guardium Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 05, 2025
BM
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Guardium
6 years of experience
Well, I think there's some part of the security that has been done by IBM that is not being done by another product. So mainly it's because of a place where nobody can do anything like similar. It's a great product
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