IBM Security QRadar and FortiInsight compete in the security information and event management (SIEM) sector. IBM Security QRadar shows an edge in features and pricing, while FortiInsight benefits from ease of deployment.
Features: IBM Security QRadar offers scalable threat intelligence, comprehensive integration capabilities, and a reliable analytics engine. FortiInsight is recognized for strong user behavior analytics, intuitive native support, and streamlined threat investigation capabilities.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: FortiInsight’s cloud-based deployment provides straightforward implementation with efficient onboarding and responsive customer support. IBM Security QRadar’s deployment process is more complex and potentially requires significant initial configuration, though it does offer robust support.
Pricing and ROI: IBM Security QRadar demands a higher upfront investment, which may be justified by its extensive features, potentially delivering better long-term ROI for enterprises seeking comprehensive security solutions. FortiInsight, more cost-effective initially, offers competitive ROI for businesses focused on user behavior analytics. Organizations prioritizing budget considerations may find FortiInsight appealing.
PROTECT YOUR COMPANY FROM UNKNOWN THREATS
The zero-config, lightweight agent installed on each system performs no analysis or preventative actions on the endpoint. Rather, the agent simply gathers and sends data for alerting or investigation. This ‘endpoint agent’ approach has significant advantages as it presents a smaller attack surface to sophisticated attackers, reduces performance drain on the endpoint, and sends telemetry to a cloud-based service that stores, analyses and presents data to the security team. By centralising the data, FortiInsight is able to correlate and machine learn across your entire estate, providing you with unparalleled insights into user and data behaviour.
USER AND ENTITY BEHAVIOUR ANALYTICS (UEBA)Fortinet’s User and Entity Behaviour Analytics (UEBA) technology protects companies from insider threats by continuously monitoring users and their devices. FortiInsight monitors endpoint activities, resource access, and data movement, offering complete visibility of resources and data. It identifies risky behaviour, policy violations, and reacts before they turn into security breaches.
Leveraging both machine learning and advanced analytics, FortiInsight automatically identifies non-compliant, suspicious, or unusual behaviour and rapidly alerts compromised user accounts. In addition, it supports compliance reporting and provides in-depth forensics to aid further investigation.
BENEFITS:Monitor. Detect. Respond.
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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