IBM Security QRadar vs i-SIEM comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

i-SIEM
Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
44th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM Security QRadar
Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
198
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (6th), User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) (1st), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (20th), Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (4th), Managed Detection and Response (MDR) (10th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (11th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of i-SIEM is 0.2%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Security QRadar is 16.3%, up from 11.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Unique Categories:
No other categories found
Log Management
9.5%
User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)
13.5%
 

Featured Reviews

DC
Jun 14, 2020
The alert fatigue and false positive rates have just plummeted, which is really exciting.
empow has a few areas of improvement as with any other technology, such as continuing to drive innovation in the dashboard. While we've been extremely impressed with the dashboard's ease of use, flexibility, ability to drill down deeply, and focus very intently on an area of interest, there will always be opportunities to be more innovative and open it up to a wider audience than just the operations group, for example. With reporting, there is always a desire to have custom reporting for every client of empow. Relative to keeping up with the sheer pace of cloud-native technologies, it should provide more options for clients to deploy their technologies in unique ways. This is an area that I recommend that they maintain focus.
SK
Feb 12, 2024
A security solution to manage logs from multiple devices
We use IBM Security QRadar for storage. These tools are setting high tools on the usage of the logs from multiple devices. It manages millions of logs from multiple devices, such as firewalls, routers, switches, etc. The solution is stable and has better support than LogRhythm. It doesn't have…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"As a result of the automation, we are able to manage SIEM with a small security team. I'm in a unique position where we have been growing the security organization quite rapidly over the last three and a half years. But, as a direct result of the empow transition and legacy collection of tools towards the empow platform, we've been able to keep that head count flat. We've been able to redirect a lot of the security team's time away from the wash, rinse, repeat activities of responding to alarms where we have a high degree of confidence that they will be false positives, adjusting the rules accordingly. This can be a bit frustrating for the analyst when they have to spend hours a day dealing with these types of probable false positives. So, it has helped not only us keep our headcount flat relative to the resources necessary to provide the assurances that our executives expect of us for monitoring, but allows our analyst team to spend the majority of their time doing what they love. They are spending their time meaningfully with a higher degree of confidence and enjoying getting into the incident response type activity."
"The best feature of IBM QRadar is visualization which shows you when there's a spike in the system, and this makes you realize that there's something wrong with the log."
"A nice benefit is when we go to the process of selecting our youth cases, they go by building blocks. QRadar links it to building blocks."
"The most valuable feature is the searching capability and real-time operational use."
"It does good correlation for events. It does good general analysis, and it has good apps as well."
"In addition to using this solution for our security operations center, we are using it for our other customers."
"This solution provides me with various alarms, and I have found security issues with some of my other products."
"It is really helpful to us from the compliance point of view."
"Log correlation is very useful for processing alerts. It serves to follow up alerts in real-time, building an entire workflow."
 

Cons

"Relative to keeping up with the sheer pace of cloud-native technologies, it should provide more options for clients to deploy their technologies in unique ways. This is an area that I recommend that they maintain focus."
"The solution should enhance its capabilities of UEBA and AI/ML tech modeling."
"QRadar needs to be more specialized, along the lines of what other SIEM solutions are."
"The AI engine could be smarter."
"The solution should include remote action capabilities."
"We need more features in order to create rules to detect or to meet some requirements for other areas, for example, catching the event from other authentication tools."
"The features that could be improved include the licensing model and the dashboards and all those presentations. Overall, the user experience part can be improved."
"QRadar UBA only keeps the data for a short while (it's refreshed every five minutes) and would be improved if this were extended to a week or month."
"The AQL queries could be better."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I don't have to put up with any longer with these hypercomplex licensing agreements. Every time I want to add some additional reporting as a compliance centric or regulatory specific, e.g., GDPR, PCI, or Sarbanes-Oxley, many providers would have an additional license for this, which felt a bit ridiculous to me. With the simplified licensing architecture, there were no hidden "gotchas" down the road with empow. Something I have experienced with other providers that I've worked with in the past."
"With a higher degree of fidelity in the alarms, we were able to avoid adding additional resources to our teams. We take into account the cost of security resources in the market and the significantly higher fidelity from the alarms that are being generated. This drove down our costs with our MSSP. It drove down my cost for human capital internally. It drove down our need to have multiple resources supporting the underlying infrastructure and health and maintenance of empow as a platform from several resources down to one. Therefore, human capital costs were significantly reduced. Our operating expenses were significantly reduced. Our capital costs were significantly reduced while tripling our capacity and our run rate reduced. It was almost a "too good to be true" situation. Fortunately, for us, it worked out very nicely."
"When compared with other SIM solutions, QRadar is considerably less expensive."
"There are different types of subscriptions available. We were on an annual subscription, but our customers typically choose the two years subscription option."
"The pricing needs to be such that they are more competitive with other vendors."
"Licensing is very expensive, IBM QRadar is a very expensive solution. If you want to minimize costs then IBM QRadar is not for you."
"The price of this solution is a little bit expensive, so if it were cheaper then it would help."
"The product is expensive. We have purchased the perpetual license, but we pay for the support."
"A good approach would be to begin with an On Cloud subscription, then later on do a more exact sizing."
"There are additional costs, such as the cost associated with the different hardware required for implementation and deployment. Along with the add-on apps, these are all additional costs, and they require licensing as well."
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Comparison Review

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Qradar vs. ArcSight
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
20%
Healthcare Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Real Estate/Law Firm
9%
Educational Organization
19%
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
6%
 

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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What are the biggest differences between Securonix UEBA, Exabeam, and IBM QRadar?
It mostly depends on your use-cases and environment. Exabeam and Securonix have a stronger UEBA feature set, friendlier GUI and are not licensed based on capacity (amount of logs and information in...
What SOC product do you recommend?
For tools I’d recommend: -SIEM- LogRhythm -SOAR- Palo Alto XSOAR Doing commercial w/o both (or at least an XDR) is asking to miss details that are critical, and ending up a statistic. Also, rememb...
What do you like most about IBM QRadar?
The event collector, flow collector, PCAP and SOAR are valuable.
 

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IBM QRadar, QRadar SIEM, QRadar UBA, QRadar on Cloud, QRadar, IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics, IBM QRadar Advisor with Watson
 

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Sample Customers

University of Oklahoma, Donnelley
Clients across multiple industries, such as energy, financial, retail, healthcare, government, communications, and education use QRadar.
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