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CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR vs IBM Security QRadar comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Net...
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Ranking in Extended Detection and Response (XDR)
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
118
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (4th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (5th), Ransomware Protection (2nd), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (1st)
CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR
Ranking in Extended Detection and Response (XDR)
34th
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM Security QRadar
Ranking in Extended Detection and Response (XDR)
9th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
218
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (5th), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (2nd), User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) (3rd), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (11th), Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (4th), Managed Detection and Response (MDR) (8th)
 

Featured Reviews

ABHISHEK_SINGH - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk
Gained full visibility and streamlined threat detection through behavior-based insights and AI integration
Initially, we got to have a lot of false positives when we onboarded, but nowadays it's quite smooth. We have fine-tuned our security policies and allowed different levels of policies to get rid of those false positives. Currently, we are getting a fairly good amount of incidents that are not false positives or benign, but actionable items. The process is streamlined. In the initial days, the operations used to get involved in a lot of benign and other activities, but now the process is streamlined. We are leveraging the auto-detection and remediation plans. The operations teams are now more involved in other business roles as well, not just looking into the logs and fetching out what's happening there. They have fixed a lot of things. Initially, they didn't have IAC code drift detection, cloud posture management, or security posture management, but they have those now. They purchased different vendors and did a merger with that. They have now Prisma Cloud that gets integrated and now they are working with Cortex Cloud. Everything that was negative has now been addressed, and the product altogether looks to be in a very better and mature shape now. Currently, it's more or less detecting the workloads with AI-based best practices. Since most organizations are consuming AI agents and other things, we are looking forward to seeing what other feature enhancements Palo Alto can support in that.
reviewer2894520 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
XDR telemetry has transformed threat hunting and now simplifies correlation across tools
The improvements I have observed in my process for detecting and investigating sophisticated attacks since adopting CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR is the quality of the telemetry that it collects. It collects all the right information you need to be able to detect threats and conduct threat hunting. The value I get from correlating activity across endpoints and other security domains with CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR ensures that I am actually getting value out of my full security tooling stack, bringing everything together into one spot. Every product has its own blind spots, but when you bring them all together, you get a better picture of what is going on. The detection capabilities of CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR have influenced my approach to identifying and addressing sophisticated threats by focusing on the correlation aspects and utilizing multiple data sources to detect those threats rather than having individual detections that utilize only one source. CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR has definitely reduced my mean time to detect and mean time to respond, though I could not give exact figures. The impact that CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR has had on alert volume and analyst investigation time is definitely reducing the volume of alerts by correlating data sources. Anytime you do that, you are speeding up or reducing the amount of work an analyst does and speeding up the time for them to do things. My experience with CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR's behavioral detections and Indicators of Attack has been good overall. I think it is hitting many of the points I have already mentioned in terms of correlating those data sources, making it easier to detect things and easier to investigate them. These detection methods integrate into my current security operations workflows by generally forming the centerpiece. I am actually a consultant, so I do not have a specific workflow myself, but I work with multiple clients, many of them using CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR, and it brings in a lot of information and stitches it all together.
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

"The product is very good, it has caught a lot of exploits that most products would not."
"It's very stable. I've never experienced downtime for the ASM console or ASM core."
"We think that this product will help us grow, as it meets our needs currently and we can grow with it over time."
"I have found the solution to be very easy in respect of the integration and configurable."
"The stability is pretty good except for one or two cases, and based on the performance, it's been okay with pretty high performance, no bugs or glitches, and it doesn't crash or freeze."
"The policy configuration is great, the granularity of policies that are available is very helpful, it is straightforward to set up, and it has pretty much everything we need and works well within the Palo Alto ecosystem."
"The normal protection was really effective, and we detected situations that if we didn't have Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, it's highly likely that we would have been affected, but it protected the infrastructure."
"Palo Alto is the best security solution in the market."
"Without a doubt, CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR is making their lives easier."
"CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR gives us the overhead in terms of resources to make the most of what we have, and anytime I can free up myself to help my end users is a win."
"CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR has positively impacted my organization by allowing us to understand behaviors and how our customers are suffering attacks, enabling us to anticipate those breaches."
"It's hard for me to pinpoint any one feature that's most valuable because it is all about consuming logs and analyzing them. We started using QRadar UBA because we needed something that could analyze Linux authentication information. Other products take care of the Windows platform."
"Providing real-time visibility for threat detection and prioritization - QRadar SIEM provides contextual and actionable surveillance across the entire IT infrastructure, helping organizations detect and remediate threats often missed by other security solutions."
"The solution is easy to use, manage, and review all incidents."
"The threat protection network is the most valuable feature because when you get an offense, you can actually trace it back to where it originated from, how it originated, and why."
"The solution is flexible and easy to use."
"QRadar is helping us to identify ongoing, day-to-day threats and analyze the risk in our environment, including user behaviors, and we can easily monitor many things using this tool."
"Most of our clients have seen a return on investment because compared to other solutions it does not require a busload of people to operate it and it is reasonably priced."
"We chose IBM because it has a lot of power, and you can grow it as much as and however you want it to."
 

Cons

"It takes time to scan the servers and devices."
"There's room for improvement with Mac device installations, which can be challenging."
"The encryption is not up to the mark."
"Being able to filter the events to see those that are related to the actual alert would save time spent by the engineer."
"One thing that was missing was the integration part. Currently, they don't have out-of-box integration with IBM QRadar, or if they have the integration, the integration doesn't work well."
"There are some default policies which sometimes affect our applications and cause them to run around."
"We had a problem with getting our older endpoints up to date, but their newest updates have been really good. I've been pleased with it in terms of what our needs are. It's doing what we want it to do."
"The technical support is not very good. I find the process difficult."
"CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR can be improved by expanding the number of built-in integrations."
"My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing could be better."
"The solution should include remote action capabilities."
"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."
"I don't think this is the best solution on the market because it takes much longer than ArcSight, for example, which provides more flexibility and capability to create much more complex use cases."
"I think the solution lacks some maturity."
"Some UI enhancements would be nice, such as exporting custom event properties and the ability to export rules."
"No, it has not improved the efficiency of our security team."
"I would like for Yara to be supported by all components."
"I don't give it a 10 because it is something we have to request. I would love it if UBA was included out of the box like Microsoft."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It has a yearly renewal."
"Licensing for Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR can be costly, especially when it comes to a hundred users. A license is required for each user, and the subscription must be renewed on a yearly basis."
"I don't recall what the cost was, but it wasn't really that expensive."
"It is "expensive" and flexible."
"The return on investment is from the user side because we have seen the performance of it increase the delivery time of the product if we are using too many web-based and on-premise applications. In indirect ways, we saw the return of investment in terms of performance and user satisfaction increase."
"Our license will require renewal in August, after which the maintenance will continue as usual."
"It's way too expensive, but security is expensive. You pay for your licensing, and then you pay for someone to monitor the stuff."
"The price is on the higher side, but it's okay."
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"We pay approximately $40,000 to use the solution annually. This solution is a lot less expensive than Splunk."
"think the pricing is quite flexible."
"The pricing is good."
"It's very expensive but it fits our budget."
"The price of this solution is a little high."
"It could be cheaper, but the value itself is far more important for us than the price. Typically, our clients have yearly subscriptions."
"QRadar's price is reasonable compared to LogRhythm."
"When compared with other SIM solutions, QRadar is considerably less expensive."
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Comparison Review

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Manager, Enterprise Risk Consulting at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 28, 2015
Qradar vs. ArcSight
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Construction Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
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Outsourcing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Construction Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business47
Midsize Enterprise21
Large Enterprise55
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business93
Midsize Enterprise39
Large Enterprise107
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR is that it is very manageabl...
What needs improvement with CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR?
CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR can be improved with a little more positive press about how good you are.
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, friendli...
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 a...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Security QRadar?
I am overall satisfied with the licensing cost for IBM Security QRadar.
 

Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps
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IBM QRadar, QRadar SIEM, QRadar UBA, QRadar on Cloud, IBM QRadar Advisor with Watson
 

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Sample Customers

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank
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Clients across multiple industries, such as energy, financial, retail, healthcare, government, communications, and education use QRadar.
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