- Protegrity DAIS Platform
Best for: Large enterprises with mainframes, data warehouses, and big data
Protegrity is not sized for SMBs in practice, despite what the company size fit field says. The licensing model and implementation complexity point squarely at large enterprises with dedicated data security teams. If your environment is primarily cloud-native and modern, you may find the platform's breadth is more than you need and the overhead is not worth it. But if you are running a hybrid estate with mainframe workloads and need a single policy framework across all of it, Protegrity is one of the few solutions that can actually deliver that.
From Best Database Security Solutions for Business, Fall 2026
- Trellix Database Security
Best for: Older databases that can no longer be patched
It earns its place on virtual patching, which buys you time on databases you cannot patch or take offline. That fits mid-market and enterprise teams running older systems next to newer ones. Ask how its cloud coverage compares with its on-premises list, because the cloud side is limited to Amazon RDS.
From Best Database Security Solutions for Business, Fall 2026
