IBM Security QRadar and Carbon Black Managed Detection and Response compete in cybersecurity, and while both offer robust solutions, Carbon Black appears to have the upper hand in feature richness and perceived value.
Features:IBM Security QRadar is known for advanced threat intelligence, seamless IBM product integration, and comprehensive reporting tools. Carbon Black Managed Detection and Response offers real-time endpoint security, continuous threat hunting, and robust automated response features.
Room for Improvement:IBM Security QRadar can improve in simplifying its complex setup process, enhancing user interface customization, and expanding third-party integration capabilities. Carbon Black could improve its reporting functionalities, expand its scope beyond endpoint security, and enhance its UI for better user experience.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:IBM Security QRadar often requires a complex setup and benefits from IBM's support infrastructure, while Carbon Black offers straightforward cloud-based deployment and attentive customer service.
Pricing and ROI:IBM Security QRadar involves significant initial setup cost with strong ROI over time. Carbon Black offers a high price point but provides quicker ROI through comprehensive security coverage and rapid threat management.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| IBM Security QRadar | 1.0% |
| Carbon Black Managed Detection and Response | 1.2% |
| Other | 97.8% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 91 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 39 |
| Large Enterprise | 105 |
Our MDR security solution provides critical insight into attacks using automated machine learning algorithms to validate and prioritize alerts and uncover new threats. Our world-class team of security experts monitors threats in VMware Carbon Black Cloud, and provides rapid response along with threat containment during an incident and policy recommendations to remediate threats.
IBM Security QRadar (recently acquired by Palo Alto Networks) is a security and analytics platform designed to defend against threats and scale security operations. This is done through integrated visibility, investigation, detection, and response. QRadar empowers security groups with actionable insights into high-priority threats by providing visibility into enterprise security data. Through centralized visibility, security teams and analysts can determine their security stance, which areas pose a potential threat, and which areas are critical. This will help streamline workflows by eliminating the need to pivot between tools.
IBM Security QRadar is built to address a wide range of security issues and can be easily scaled with minimal customization effort required. As data is ingested, QRadar administers automated, real-time security intelligence to swiftly and precisely discover and prioritize threats. The platform will issue alerts with actionable, rich context into developing threats. Security teams and analysts can then rapidly respond to minimize the attackers' strike. The solution will provide a complete view of activity in both cloud-based and on-premise environments as a large amount of data is ingested throughout the enterprise. Additionally, QRadar’s anomaly detection intelligence enables security teams to identify any user behavior changes that could be indicators of potential threats.
IBM QRadar Log Manager
To better help organizations protect themselves against potential security threats, attacks, and breaches, IBM QRadar Log Manager gathers, analyzes, preserves, and reports on security log events using QRadar Sense Analytics. All operating systems and applications, servers, devices, and applications are converted into searchable and actionable intelligent data. QRadar Log Manager then helps organizations meet compliance reporting and monitoring requirements, which can be further upgraded to QRadar SIEM for a more superior level of threat protection.
Some of QRadar Log Manager’s key features include:
Reviews from Real Users
IBM Security QRadar is a solution of choice among users because it provides a complete solution for security teams by integrating network analysis, log management, user behavior analytics, threat intelligence, and AI-powered investigations into a single solution. Users particularly like having a single window into their network and its ability to be used for larger enterprises.
Simon T., a cyber security services operations manager at an aerospace/defense firm, notes, "The most valuable thing about QRadar is that you have a single window into your network, SIEM, network flows, and risk management of your assets. If you use Splunk, for instance, then you still need a full packet capture solution, whereas the full packet capture solution is integrated within QRadar. Its application ecosystem makes it very powerful in terms of doing analysis."
A management executive at a security firm says, "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."
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