We performed a comparison between Imperva SecureSphere Database Security and Oracle Audit Vault based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Database Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Flexible reporting allows for customization that keeps the admins from having to interact with system automation."
"It has a very user-friendly interface that's very detailed."
"The most valuable features of Imperva SecureSphere Database Security are the user-friendliness, easy-to-use interface compared to competitors, database operations do not need a specialist, and simple to manage for our security team. Additionally, the solution can show all the databases and the level of sensitivity. It can show what is more sensitive or less sensitive."
"It has a user-friendly interface. It is a stable and scalable product."
"Ability to send event monitoring and administrative activities."
"The most valuable feature is the Data Masking."
"The audit feature is great. It is totally encrypted."
"The technical support for Imperva is super, super, super."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Audit Vault is that it is agentless and enhanced user interface."
"The critical event alerts and reporting features have greatly reduced loss of man hours that would have been spent on going through the whole audit event logs."
"Oracle Audit Vault has a lot of great features, but what I find most valuable is the database firewall."
"Out-of-the-box policies ensure our compliance with standards like SOX, ISO 27001, and so on."
"It has provided us with a unique opportunity to automate risk discovery."
"It has reduced the stress of collecting database event logs in silos from each database."
"It is a good product for controlling all databases. It is helpful for auditing the data. When people are doing any actions on the databases, they are recorded automatically in the vault. You can work on the collected data to find out exactly what is happening on a database. You can implement database encryption on the databases to control people's access to the database content, such as rows and tables."
"A powerful, flexible solution for database traffic monitoring."
"Sometimes the reports are cumbersome, and you have to drill down to get more information."
"The interface is not user-friendly."
"Improvements can be made in data enrichment and enhancing the GUI (Graphical User Interface) for a better user experience."
"The only challenge I see is that SecureSphere is deployed on servers or databases which are held on physical infrastructure. However, there are databases which are hosted on cloud platforms and Imperva has a separate tool altogether for that, not SecureSphere."
"Once we read the activity logs on the platform, we cannot open them anywhere else as they are stored in a proprietary format."
"Its reporting can be improved. The reporting feature is currently not good enough for our clients."
"There is sometimes lost communication and it can take a lot of troubleshooting to solve."
"The updates could be better."
"I hear from many people that say IBM Guardian is better than Oracle Audit Vault when it comes to performance. IBM Guardian works transparently in the database, but Oracle Audit Vault consumes some ratios on the server."
"Stability could be improved, we have had some challenges"
"Customized reporting is something that we are struggling with, and it is quite tough for us."
"The product monitors only the database and not the operating systems."
"Some of our customers were asking about latency when the application wants to get to the database."
"An easy, friendly user interface would be nice to have, since this would enable administrators to identify important events with a prompt response."
"The performance of Oracle Audit Vault could be improved, especially in handling large data collections and generating reports on time."
"One feature that is missing is the ability to have a secret server that is always encrypted."
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Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is ranked 2nd in Database Security with 52 reviews while Oracle Audit Vault is ranked 3rd in Database Security with 28 reviews. Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is rated 8.2, while Oracle Audit Vault is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Imperva SecureSphere Database Security writes "The fine-grained auditing available on the platform makes life easier and helps explain anything happening in your database". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Audit Vault writes "Enhanced interface, agentless, and simple setup". Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is most compared with IBM Security Guardium Data Protection, DataSunrise Database Security, Trustwave DbProtect, jSonar and Imperva DDoS, whereas Oracle Audit Vault is most compared with IBM Security Guardium Data Protection, Trustwave DbProtect, DB Networks DBN-6300, DataSunrise Database Security and jSonar. See our Imperva SecureSphere Database Security vs. Oracle Audit Vault report.
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