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Safeguard critical, sensitive, or regulated data wherever it resides
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IBM Security Guardium Multi-Cloud Data Protection: Safeguard critical, sensitive, or regulated data wherever it resides.
A Guardium Collector can be run as a standalone instance or as part of scaled, multi-tier architecture utilizing both an Aggregator and Central Manager. An Aggregator allows for data to be consolidated and/or purged from Collectors while a Central Manager enables central administration of all Guardium instances.
Current Guardium customers can use their existing licenses.
New to Guardium? View our interactive demo: https://www.ibm.com/security/resources/guardium-data-protection-demo
We recommend using IBM Security Guardium version 11.2 plus any new fix bundles from Fix Central. Older versions are made available for archival purposes and may contain bugs and/or security vulnerabilities. Security bulletins contain instructions for the security vulnerability addressed therein, and may require upgrading to a newer version. Fix bundles to update this version can be found on IBM Support Fix Central (https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/ ). Link to IBM PSIRT Blog: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/
Highlights
- Discover sensitive data, harden the environment against vulnerabilities
- Monitor user activity for data and files, providing real-time visibility and threat analytics
- Protect sensitive data using real-time alerting, dynamic masking, blocking, and quarantining
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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- Login into the CLI a. Use the access key pair associated with the instance i. In Linux run ssh -i <PEM key> cli@<instance IP> ii. In Window/Putty you will need to convert the .pem key to .ppk See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/putty.html
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Customer reviews
Health, Wellness and Fitness
Security Vulnerability Scan Reports You Can Rely On
Reviewed on Oct 29, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
It provides security vulnerability scan reports
What do you dislike about the product?
for PostgreSQL databases, it requires a database restart
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
security scans
Non-Profit Organization Management
Great Integration and Solid Enterprise Protection
Reviewed on Oct 29, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Great integration, and it provides solid protection for enterprise use.
What do you dislike about the product?
The licensing isn’t very good, and it’s complicated to use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
DAM is our primary use case, and it helps us monitor our assets while staying compliant.
Dushyanth M.
Love the Audit Features
Reviewed on Oct 28, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
We use for DML activities and it helps security team
What do you dislike about the product?
It has dependency with Guardium team for any reports
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tracking all DML activities and helping the security team with any violations.
Health, Wellness and Fitness
Robust Database Protection with Guardium Data Protect
Reviewed on Oct 28, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Guardium data protect on Database technology
What do you dislike about the product?
performance issues and ops patch issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
When have issues with Database patch having problem on db
Hugo R.
Protects Client Sensitive Data with Confidence
Reviewed on Oct 27, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Help me to protect the sensitive data of my clients
What do you dislike about the product?
In some cases are complex configurations
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Compliance of Mexican Government regulations