A single data protection infrastructure for your entire environment
Support your entire data protection journey with the same infrastructure and approach. IBM Security® Guardium® helps ensure the security, privacy and integrity of your critical data across a full range of environments—from databases to big data, cloud, file systems and more.
Why IBM Security Guardium

Analyze your data risk
Automatically discover and classify sensitive data, uncover usage patterns and assess compliance risks.

Protect your critical data
Extensive audit capabilities, use of encryption, masking, redaction, and dynamic blocking and alerting.

Seamlessly adapt to changes
Support traditional and new data technologies, such as Hadoop, noSQL and cloud.
Guardium products
IBM Security Guardium Data Protection for Databases
Monitor access to data sources, automate compliance controls, and protect sensitive data.
IBM Security Guardium Analyzer
Leverage compliance analysis-as-a-service to efficiently find personal data, understand data exposures, and act to minimize risk.
IBM Security Guardium Data Protection for Files
Continuously monitor unstructured data access and protect sensitive data across the enterprise.
IBM Guardium Multi-Cloud Data Protection
Protects data from misuse whether it resides in single cloud, multiple clouds, or hybrid environments.
IBM Multi-Cloud Data Encryption
Safeguards data from misuse whether it resides in single cloud, multiple clouds or hybrid environments with encryption capabilities.
IBM Security Guardium Big Data Intelligence
Enrich your existing data security solution by creating an optimized security big data lake.
IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager
Centralize, simplify and automate encryption key management to help minimize risk and reduce costs.
IBM Security Guardium Data Protection for Big Data
Built on a scalable architecture with full visibility on data activity; supports both Hadoop and NoSQL.
IBM Security Guardium Vulnerability Assessment
Scan and detect data repository vulnerabilities on a scheduled basis and harden the environment.
Learn more about Guardium
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The Total Economic Impact of IBM Security Guardium
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