IBM Guardium was built for on-prem. Your data isn't there anymore.

As enterprises migrate to hybrid and cloud environments, IBM Guardium's infrastructure requirements grow with every new database: more taps, more collectors, more aggregators, all customer-managed, all running on your cloud compute and storage budget.

TrustLogix is a single, agentless platform that covers on-prem, hybrid, and cloud environments, including native support for Snowflake and Databricks. No agents. No customer-managed components. No separate enrichment layer to make your logs actionable.

Where TrustLogix wins

Lighter infrastructureReplace 12+ customer-managed IBM components with one data plane instance or full SaaS. Identify data access risks in under 30 minutes.

Lower total costGuardium's true cost includes licensing plus the cloud infrastructure bill for running all those components continuously. TrustLogix eliminates the infrastructure cost entirely for SaaS deployments.

Built-in security contextTrustLogix builds user, IP, OS, and application context directly into monitoring policies. No separate enrichment service. No additional vendor. Actionable risk detail out of the box, with SIEM export as a standard output.

Native cloud platform supportGuardium requires external tooling for Snowflake and Databricks. TrustLogix supports both natively, alongside AWS RDS, Azure Synapse, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, and on-prem databases, from a single platform.

Beyond activity monitoring

IBM Guardium is a DAM-first tool. TrustLogix covers DAM, DSPM, access governance, and enforcement in one integrated platform, with capabilities Guardium doesn't offer:

• Access Analyzer: visualizes role hierarchies to identify and resolve excessive privileges
• No-code policy builder: data owners manage access policies without engineering involvement
• Purpose-Based Access Control (PBAC): users access only data relevant to their role
• Dark data reports: identifies unused and risky data to reduce compliance exposure
• Real-time data sprawl monitoring: detects shadow IT risks and unauthorized data movement across cloud and hybrid environments