IBM Security QRadar vs Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business comparison

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:

• Data processing and capture on any security event
• Disaster recovery options and high availability 
• Scalability for large enterprises
• SoftLayer cloud installation capability
• Advanced threat protection

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."

Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business is a cybersecurity solution that is designed to protect small and large business networks and devices from all types of cyber security threats by implementing machine learning algorithms for real-time threat detection and response. The solution offers antivirus protection, firewall, network attack protection, web control, device control, data encryption, reporting tools, and more. Kaspersky integrates with a wide variety of external systems and platforms and is easy to customize to meet your organization’s specific security needs.

Benefits of using Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business

Some of the key benefits of using Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business include:

• Advanced threat protection: Detect and prevent malicious attacks on your network and devices with Kaspersky’s advanced AI-based technologies.
  
  
• Centralized management: Deploy, manage, and monitor security across your entire network with an intuitive single pane of glass.
  
  
• Compliance: Ensure compliance by meeting industry-specific security and regulatory requirements.

• Optimized system performance: Ensure that your various security measures do not have a negative impact on device performance or productivity.

• Comprehensive security: Protect your company’s desktops, laptops, servers, mobile devices, and network from multiple threats, including threats from mobile devices.

• Flexibility: The solution can be customized to meet the specific security needs of an organization, making it easier to manage and secure complex environments.

Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business features

Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business provides its users with a wide range of features to protect their corporate networks and devices against multiple types of threats, including:

• Cutting-edge security tools: Kaspersky uses advanced technologies to detect and prevent known and unknown threats, including viruses, spyware, Trojan horses, and other types of malware.

• Endpoint management: Control and monitor endpoints from a central location, including device control, software deployment, and security policy enforcement.
  
  
• Application access control: Manage access to application usage and prevent unauthorized usage of applications.

• Encryption: Encrypts endpoint data to ensure data privacy and prevent unauthorized access.

• Mobile device management: Control and secure mobile devices and prevent the loss or theft of sensitive data.

• Web protection: Block access to malicious or inappropriate websites and gain protection against phishing attacks and other web-based threats.

• Data protection: Prevent unauthorized access to sensitive and private information.

• Network attack blocker: Protect network attacks, such as DDoS and other types of network-borne threats.

Reviews from Real Users

Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Several major ones are its high performance, flexibility, and powerful virtualization capabilities.

Natnael A., a consultant at IWM Network Solutions, writes, “The app virtualizing is a great feature. The system developers use it to deliver apps to targeted staff. It basically reduces the server infrastructure resource. The solution provides good functionality.”

Rob M., a systems administrator at Saint Tammany Parish Hospital, says, “The solution has provided flexibility by allowing an end user to remote in, log in, and get their VM. VDI session and have all the icons and applications they need to use and retain the same booking view regardless of location.”