IBM software · Data security
Know where your sensitive data lives, and who touches it. Your price in one business day.
For the teams who answer for the data: IBM Guardium Data Security Center, sized to your data stores by our engineering team and priced before you commit.
One of our engineers replies within one business day.
One suite for the data you answer for.
- It finds and classifies sensitive data, on premises and in the cloud, structured and unstructured.
- It watches who reaches that data, and alerts on what matters.
- It keeps the evidence your auditors ask for, with prebuilt policies and workflows.
The controls you run today may be serving you well. This is what one suite adds.
We size it with you. You see your price first, within one business day.
Four tools. One view.
Guardium Data Protection.
Activity monitoring and compliance automation, with prebuilt templates.
Guardium Vulnerability Assessment.
Scans your data stores and helps you fix what it finds.
Guardium DDR.
Data detection and response: one view of your security data, with AI insights that cut the noise for your security operations team.
Guardium Cryptography Manager.
For your encryption and your keys, across the estate.
Source: IBM’s Guardium Data Security Center page, opened October 22, 2026.
Three of IBM’s own figures.
70% less time on audits.
A Forrester Total Economic Impact study of Guardium Data Protection, as IBM reports it.*
25% of analysts’ time back.
The same study: a quarter of data security analysts’ time saved.*
Running in under 60 minutes.
IBM says Guardium Data Protection deploys from AWS Marketplace in under 60 minutes, with no Guardium expertise needed.
* IBM reports both figures on its Guardium Data Protection page, from a Forrester Total Economic Impact study. IBM’s page for the study says IBM commissioned it from Forrester Consulting, which interviewed four Guardium Data Protection clients and combined them into one composite organization.
Source: IBM’s Guardium Data Security Center page, opened October 22, 2026.
Show your auditors, not just tell them.
IBM names PCI DSS, SOX, GDPR, CPRA and HIPAA among the standards Guardium Data Protection helps you meet. The suite itself is audited against ISO/IEC 27001, 27017, 27018 and 27701, and SOC 2.
Source: IBM’s Guardium Data Security Center page, opened October 22, 2026.
What you get.
If you own security.
You get one view of who reaches your sensitive data, on premises and in the cloud, with alerts on what matters. Our engineering team sets up the monitoring with you.
If you answer to auditors.
You get prebuilt policies, audit workflows and long-term retention of the evidence. IBM reports a Forrester study that found 70% less time spent on auditing.*
If you are the CIO.
You get one suite in place of separate tools, and the number before you commit. Pay only for what you need. See your price first, within one business day.
You have real choices. Here is each one, plainly.
Keep the controls you have.
Native database logs and the tools you run today. Nothing to buy. What one suite adds will still be here when you are ready.
Buy from IBM itself.
IBM sells directly to fewer than about 100 companies and organizations in the United States. Everyone else buys through an IBM Business Partner. So the real choice is which partner.
Buy through another IBM Business Partner.
Same IBM software. Same IBM programs. Ask three things: who sizes it, how soon you see the price, and who sets up the monitoring with you.
Choose a different data security product.
It can be the right call when your team runs it everywhere. Compare three things: discovery across on premises and cloud, activity monitoring, and audit evidence you can hand over.
Use your cloud provider’s tools.
Right when the data lives in one cloud and that cloud’s own tools cover it. Not when the data stores that feed it sit in your own data center too.
Buy it through us.
You get the same IBM software. And you get our engineering team: we size it with you, show you your price first, and stay with you through setup and support.
IBM builds the suite. We size it with you.
You see your price first.
Tell us what you’re after. One business day later you have a price, sized to fit, with nothing in it you don’t need.
Our engineering team owns it.
The engineers who size it set it up and stay through support. IBM Business Partner since 2008, 29 of 29 IBM proficiencies, one team the whole way.
It is our pleasure to meet you.
230 briefing centers in 113 cities. Pick one; one of our engineers brings the coffee. Or meet us online.
Our engineering team inventories your data stores with you, sizes the suite, gets the licensing right, and stays through setup and support.
It would be our pleasure to size yours.
How our engineering team delivers
Get it running.
Our engineering team, with IBM Expert Labs (formerly IBM Lab Services)
Plan.
We look at what you run today and agree the order of work with you. Delivered remotely.
Build.
We design it, install it and move your workloads across, then hand it over working. Delivered remotely.
Stay connected.
After go-live, IBM’s specialists stay on call beside our IBM engineers.
One statement of work and one invoice, from us.
One of our engineers replies within one business day.
The proof.
IBM’s published results
Source: IBM’s Guardium Data Security Center page, opened October 22, 2026.
Our trusted and valued customers are shown on our home page. It is our privilege to work for them. See our customers
We would rather tell you now. Guardium Data Security Center is not the fit if your sensitive data lives in one cloud and that cloud’s own tools cover it, or if all you need is encryption keys managed for storage. For that last one, ask us about Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager.
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