Wide visibility, compliance, and protection throughout the data security lifecycle.


Guardium is a modern, scalable data security platform that is ready to meet the demands of today’s progressing environments. It protects sensitive and regulated data across multiple cloud environments while managing compliance obligations, discovering where sensitive data lives, encrypting and monitoring what’s important and reducing your risk while responding to threats.

Why Guardium?


Because data security is everyone’s business. As digital transformation and cloud migration continues, so does your need for expanded data security. You’re faced with a wide spectrum of use cases in the complex data landscape—all of which make data security an even more pressing challenge. IBM Security® Guardium is a data security solution that can adapt as the threat environment changes, providing complete visibility, compliance, and protection throughout the data security lifecycle.

Key Benefits


  • Automate data discovery and classification: Enterprises are challenged with understanding where their data resides and whether it needs to be further protected. Guardium can discover, classify and catalog regulated structured and unstructured data residing on-premises and cloud to uncover vulnerabilities.
  • Monitor activity and protect data: A fundamental challenge with data security is identifying who has access and what can they do. Enterprises need real-time activity monitoring for on-premises and cloud data sources, so mission-critical data remains protected. Guardium protects data with encryption, key management, real-time alerts, dynamic redaction, quarantining suspect IDs and more.
  • Speed up data compliance: Varying and often-changing compliance needs are a challenge. Guardium can speed compliance activities using a simplified technical environment and pre-built templates for regulations such as PCI DSS, SOX, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, and many more that automate compliance workflows. This enables faster reporting, streamlined processes, reduced TCO and stronger compliance posture.
  • Understand risk and prioritize investigations: Your security analysts can quickly become overburdened with non-prioritized threats. Guardium provides advanced analytics and risk scoring to identify unknown threats. By integrating with major security tools, it enables your security analysts to prioritize and orchestrate responses across the SOC and ticketing systems.

Additional Resources


Every product in the Guardium family brings added protection, explore below:

Automate and streamline your journey to data security and compliance with software that protects your data, wherever it lives:
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Secure your organization’s data:
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Encryption solutions to secure your data and your business:
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Accurate, scalable, and integrated discovery and classification of structured and unstructured data across all environments:
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Understand your security posture by scanning your data infrastructure to detect vulnerabilities, cyberthreats and security gaps:
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Deliver centralized, secured key management with reduced costs and greater operational efficiency:
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Uncover, analyze, and visualize data-related business risks so you can take action to protect your business:
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Learn more about what IBM Security Guardium solutions can do for you.