A unified suite to discover, monitor, assess and secure your sensitive data
Why Guardium Data Security Center?
Empower security teams to collaborate across the organization, manage data security vulnerabilities and risks throughout the data security lifecycle amid evolving regulatory requirements.
On premises and on cloud, structured and unstructured.
With continuous risk assessments and automated workflows.
Through integrated use cases and broad compatibility.
While minimizing cost and risk.
Protect. Manage. Empower.
IBM® Guardium® Data Security Center helps you manage the data security lifecycle, from discovery to remediation, and empowers multidisciplinary teams to effectively manage data vulnerabilities and risks. It brings together the most advanced IBM Guardium solutions to protect data across all data stores and environments.
Protect sensitive data with comprehensive activity monitoring and automate your compliance by using prebuilt templates.
Proactively identify and remediate database vulnerabilities before they’re exploited through automated scanning of data stores.
Create a consolidated view of security data to quickly detect and respond to risk events and reduce noise in your SOC.
Achieve crypto-agility, secure data
IBM Guardium Cryptography Manager helps your organization achieve crypto-agility, encrypt sensitive data and prepare for PQC readiness.
Analyst quotations
KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Data Security Platforms 2025
"IBM Guardium Data Security Center is a highly capable enterprise-grade data security solution, well-suited for large organizations requiring scalable, policy-driven security and compliance enforcement. Its comprehensive monitoring, broad integration support, and flexible deployment options make it an impressive option in the even-changing landscape of data security."
Jennifer Glenn - Research Director, IDC
"Data is the foundation of the modern enterprise. New demands on data – such as GenAI – are making it necessary to more granularly balance usability and security. Further, information about the security and integrity of that data has to be easily shared and/or collaborated on by multiple security teams within an organization.
IBM [Guardium] Data Security Center uses a platform-based approach that is designed to help organizations secure their data across multiple environments from both current and emerging risks."
Strategic partnerships
Data stores and applications
Integrations
Certifications, regulations, and standards
We maintain strict standards for security, privacy, and operational integrity, validated through independent audits and internationally recognized certifications.
The internationally recognized standard that specifies requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and continually improving an Information Security Management System (ISMS).
Provides guidelines for information security controls specifically relevant to cloud service providers and cloud service customers.
Establishes controls and best practices for protecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in public cloud environments, based on the privacy principles of ISO/IEC 29100.
Extends ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27002 to include a Privacy Information Management System (PIMS), helping organizations manage personal data privacy.
A comprehensive, regularly updated report that evaluates our controls related to security, availability, confidentiality, and privacy.
Learn how to protect your data across its lifecycle from our webinars.
Reduce breach risk and stay compliant with intelligent monitoring, automated fixes, and full protection for sensitive data.
Discover and explore product capabilites that can help you with data compliance challenges.