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ActivTrack vs IBM Security QRadar comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

ActivTrack
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Workforce Engagement Management (17th)
IBM Security QRadar
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
217
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (7th), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (3rd), User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) (2nd), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (16th), Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (4th), Managed Detection and Response (MDR) (6th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (11th)
 

Mindshare comparison

ActivTrack and IBM Security QRadar aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. ActivTrack is designed for Workforce Engagement Management and holds a mindshare of 1.0%.
IBM Security QRadar, on the other hand, focuses on Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), holds 5.3% mindshare, down 8.8% since last year.
Workforce Engagement Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
ActivTrack1.0%
Genesys Cloud CX16.6%
NICE CXone12.4%
Other70.0%
Workforce Engagement Management
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM Security QRadar5.3%
Splunk Enterprise Security7.2%
Wazuh5.8%
Other81.7%
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
 

Featured Reviews

OLUWATOBI ADETUNJI ADETORO - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Technician at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees
It makes employees more conscious of what they're do on the clock, helping us to deliver better services to our clients
ActivTrack has a range of features, including a detailed dashboard, alert monitoring, screenshots, and report generation. Overall, ActivTrak has worked as advertised, and we're happy. Our favorite feature is probably the alerts. ActivTrack warns employees when they break the rules, which helps us keep staff in check. The daily report is comprehensive and easy to read. It's an excellent feature to explore.
HarshBhardiya - PeerSpot reviewer
SOC Engineer at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Have managed daily asset and alert monitoring effectively but have encountered limitations with manual processes and interface usability
It's still very manual and doesn't work on its own. It's still in an early stage and not on par where we can consider it a really successful detection system. The accuracy is not there. The UI could be better when compared to Sentinels where we can use flags and tagging. It could be much more user-friendly. IBM Security QRadar has all features and is fully competitive with other SIEM tools, but when it comes to user-friendliness, a new user takes time to get used to it. More intuitive, user-friendly interfaces and more helpful documentation would be beneficial. The query searching and data fetching could be faster. In large to very large organizations with around 5,000 or 6,000 assets or beyond, even with proper configurations and RAM and hardware backing up, the query is fairly slow.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"ActivTrack has a range of features, including a detailed dashboard, alert monitoring, screenshots, and report generation. Overall, ActivTrak has worked as advertised, and we're happy. Our favorite feature is probably the alerts. ActivTrack warns employees when they break the rules, which helps us keep staff in check."
"The query search and log fetching are really helpful in IBM Security QRadar when compared to other tools."
"The query search and log fetching are really helpful in IBM Security QRadar when compared to other tools."
"It is really helpful to us from the compliance point of view."
"It is the core of our entire SOX."
"What we like about QRadar and the models that IBM has, is it can go from a small-to-medium enterprise to a larger organization, and it gives you the same value."
"The query search and log fetching are really helpful in IBM Security QRadar when compared to other tools."
"The scalability is very good. It's not a problem."
"The tool is already automated in many ways, but there are some additional functions which should be automated, like sending an email, mobile notification, and integration of XFS."
 

Cons

"I prefer an on-prem deployment, but ActivTrak currently doesn't offer this. It would address privacy concerns that come up for end-users. I would also love it if monitoring could be expanded to company mobile phones. This will enable us to track and maintain productivity on devices like that."
"Needs better visualization options beyond the time series charts and a few other options that they have."
"IBM Qradar could improve the reporting. The tool is not designed to report. It's a great operational monitoring tool. You put it on a screen and you watch it. If you want to have analytics out of it, that's a whole different story. You're going to need more people and tools. What should be added is reporting and integration into Power BI, into some capability that produces analytical reports from the source data. IBM does not seem to care to add these features."
"IBM Security QRadar’s GUI could be improved."
"I think that the search speed of this solution could be improved."
"The quality of technical support depends on the IBM support person. Sometimes, it's hard to get the right person on the other side. A ticket coordinator could be the key to better quality delivery."
"The tech support is not that good."
"Before we didn't have any security issues but recently a few of the user emails were hacked. We had to actually recreate their emails for them."
"The implementation of the solution's technology needs to be simplified."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The price of this solution is a little high."
"Licensing is very expensive, IBM QRadar is a very expensive solution. If you want to minimize costs then IBM QRadar is not for you."
"It's very expensive but it fits our budget."
"The maintenance costs are high."
"The price of this product is high."
"The solution's pricing is based on the EPS model."
"The product is expensive. We have purchased the perpetual license, but we pay for the support."
"The solution is priced fairly, there is a license for the solution, and we pay annually."
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Manager, Enterprise Risk Consulting at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 28, 2015
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business91
Midsize Enterprise39
Large Enterprise105
 

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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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Security QRadar?
Pricing and the license of EPS were managed by the governance team. I was not responsible for managing those. I was supposed to put up the requirement of the license needed to integrate that amount...
 

Also Known As

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IBM QRadar, QRadar SIEM, QRadar UBA, QRadar on Cloud, IBM QRadar Advisor with Watson
 

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Sample Customers

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