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Carbon Black Managed Detection and Response vs IBM Security QRadar comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 3, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Carbon Black Managed Detect...
Ranking in Managed Detection and Response (MDR)
29th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM Security QRadar
Ranking in Managed Detection and Response (MDR)
7th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
218
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (6th), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (2nd), User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) (3rd), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (10th), Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (5th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) category, the mindshare of Carbon Black Managed Detection and Response is 1.3%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Security QRadar is 1.3%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM Security QRadar1.3%
Carbon Black Managed Detection and Response1.3%
Other97.4%
Managed Detection and Response (MDR)
 

Featured Reviews

JS
IT Security & Audit Compliance Analyst at Milwaukee City and County
It provides an overview of all our assets and their status.
We use Carbon Black for monitoring.  We haven't experienced any significant incidents, yet. So far, we've mostly been weeding out all the false positives.  Carbon Black provides an overview of all our assets and their status.  Carbon Black's support could be better.  I have used Carbon Black…
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

"Carbon Black provides an overview of all our assets and their status."
"The installation process is quick and easy."
"The greatest value of MDR involves the tests, reporting and alerts, so that we may respond immediately."
"I don't have to take care of this product; it's just working and that's it, and I don't have to think about anything."
"The valuable features are threat hunting, threat intelligence feeds, and it culls all the activities of the endpoint. Additionally, the ML and AI engines are really good."
"This is where Carbon Black has been phenomenal for us, it has detected many security concerns."
"It has improved my efficiency."
"With QRadar, you can do all these, even if you are not a security expert."
"My advice if you want to use IBM QRadar is that you should use it because it's very scalable and it's easy to use."
"I think this is a good product for enterprises because of the performance and out-of-the-box rules and use cases. If they want to reach the maturity level early, they can use these out-of-the-box rules and use cases. That will help them a lot."
"With QRadar, we are getting better outputs such as the reports and other outputs."
"QRadar was the best of the breed for our needs and for a big system like ours, it's less complex than Splunk or Outside."
"The product has plenty of features and capabilities."
"It comes with many rules disabled. You can tune them and modify them according to your enterprise needs and avoid false positives."
 

Cons

"As the solution has changed hands, I expect some changes in licensing and in support. It remains to be seen if that will be good or bad."
"In the future, it would be great if they could provide endpoint management and the ADR solution together in this package."
"Carbon Black's support could be better."
"We did encounter stability issues as IBM’s patches are not stable at all."
"The solution lacks vendor support."
"The AI engine could be smarter."
"It would be better if it were more stable and more secure. The price for maintenance could be better. It's too high. In the next release, I think they should focus on the price and the operation."
"We actually have very few use cases and there were lots of false positives with QRadar."
"The usability of interfaces could be improved."
"Acquiring these add-on apps for QRadar is very expensive."
"The solution is expensive compared to other products."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of this solution is inexpensive compare with others. The company went out of its way to provide us with a favorable discount. However, there is room for improving the current licensing model and the price of some of the fees. The model is complex and could be streamlined."
"The pricing is higher but cheaper than others and there are no additional costs."
"IBM's Qradar is not for small companie. Unfortunately, it would be 'overkill' to place it plainly. The pricing would be too much."
"You have a one-time payment, and you also can purchase it for one year as a subscription. We have it on-premise, and we have a permanent license for it. We have to pay for the support on a yearly basis. If you compare its cost with Sentinel for one year, QRadar would seem more expensive, but if you compare its cost over five or ten years, Azure Sentinel will be more expensive than QRadar. If you compare its cost with Sentinel for one year, QRadar would seem more expensive, but if you compare its cost over five or 10 years, Azure Sentinel can be more expensive than QRadar."
"IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics is an application framework and you can install many applications without any additional costs."
"It is cheaper than ArcSight."
"It is costlier as compared to the other alternatives available in the market."
"Pricing and licensing are competitive. Their new licensing options allow logs to bypass the correlation engine for a flat rate, which is also appealing for log data that is compliance-driven for a small amount of money."
"It's not expensive for the resources that it gives you."
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Comparison Review

VS
Manager, Enterprise Risk Consulting at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 28, 2015
Qradar vs. ArcSight
Continuing with the SIEM posts we have done at Infosecnirvana, this post is a Head to head comparison of the two Industry leading SIEM products in the market – HP ArcSight and IBM QRadar Both the products have consistently been in the Gartner Leaders Quadrant. Both HP and IBM took over niche SIEM…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
15%
Construction Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
10%
Construction Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business92
Midsize Enterprise39
Large Enterprise107
 

Questions from the Community

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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

Carbon Black Cloud Managed Detection Deliver
IBM QRadar, QRadar SIEM, QRadar UBA, QRadar on Cloud, IBM QRadar Advisor with Watson
 

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Sample Customers

Coincheck, Mednax, Charles River, Chick-fil-A, Netflix, Domino's Pizza
Clients across multiple industries, such as energy, financial, retail, healthcare, government, communications, and education use QRadar.
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