

IBM Security QRadar and Hillstone I-Series Server Breach Detection System are cybersecurity competitors. IBM leads with comprehensive threat intelligence and incident investigation, while Hillstone excels in active defense and network protection.
Features: IBM Security QRadar offers comprehensive threat detection, real-time security analytics, and advanced incident response capabilities to quickly identify and analyze suspicious activities. Hillstone I-Series provides advanced threat prevention, intelligent data analysis, and effective interception of sophisticated threats, focusing on robust preventive measures.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM Security QRadar's scalable architecture enables seamless integration into complex systems, enhancing its flexibility. Hillstone I-Series ensures streamlined deployment with straightforward configuration and efficient customer support, emphasizing simplicity and reliability in service.
Pricing and ROI: IBM Security QRadar operates on a flexible pricing model with potentially higher upfront costs, offering significant long-term value through detailed insights. Hillstone I-Series typically presents a more cost-effective solution initially, balancing affordability with strong security returns, providing immediate cost-efficiency.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| IBM Security QRadar | 9.0% |
| Hillstone I-Series Server Breach Detection System | 1.2% |
| Other | 89.8% |


| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 90 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 36 |
| Large Enterprise | 102 |
The Hillstone Server Breach Detection System (sBDS) adopts multiple threat detection technologies that include both traditional signature-based technology as well as large-scale threat intelligent data modeling and user behavioral analytics modeling, which provides an ideal solution to detect unknown or 0-day threat attacks, to protect high-value, critical servers and their sensitive data from being leaked or stolen. Together with deep threat hunting analysis capabilities and visibility, Hillstone sBDS provides security admins the effective means to detect IOCs (Indicators of Compromise) events, restore the threat attack kill chain and provide extensive visibility into threat intelligence analysis and mitigations.
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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