2021-04-21T20:57:00Z

What is your opinion of IBM QRadar?

Hello,

Can you please share your opinion about purchasing and using IBM QRadar?

DE
IT System Administrator at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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JC
Senior Security Analyst at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
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2021-07-28T05:56:46Z
Jul 28, 2021

I found QRadar as a very workable SIEM. It also works seamlessly with the IBM SOAR solution.


Integrating with the right EDR makes it a formidable solution for monitoring the health of your environment, and offers potential responses to mitigate threats.


There is a trade-off with less flexibility to accept external threat intel feeds, though the vendor believes they have depth on their own TI.


Overall, not bad as an e yer pride SIEM, but you will pay top dollar for expansions.

EB
Director of Community at PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
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Jul 28, 2021

@Jack Callaghan thanks for your answer! It seems something is misspelled in your last sentence...

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TS
CEO at Rufusforyou
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2021-04-29T10:26:35Z
Apr 29, 2021

IBM QRADAR is a great SIEM systems only expensive, it is capable to detect and report on security issues and the AI is doing a great job. If I compare it with different systems on the market, Riverbeds security system is equal, Advise if you like to go with IBM you should ask for the roadmap of Qradar.

EB
Director of Community at PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
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2021-04-23T04:37:09Z
Apr 23, 2021

@Dawn Eickenhorst ​, you might like to check the following link: 


https://www.itcentralstation.com/products/ibm-qradar-reviews


 

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VS
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Hi, in my opinion, because it is still the best at giving you visibility of what's happening in your IT infrastructure, and at detecting threats. Visibility and detection may seem simple tasks. but actually, they require a lot of capabilities in understanding, integrating, logging, and alarms from a huge multitude of devices. Such tasks go under the line of log ingestion, normalization, etc., and that is far from easy. QRadar has done a lot of work in that direction. Another aspect is event correlation. And here, either you write the correlation rules yourself, spending $$$$ of professional services, and by the way, it'll take forever to test, implement and maintain up to date, or your access to a very long list of preset correlation rules, that are already available and waiting to be activated. Finally, visibility and threat detection is just the beginning of a journey pointed at becoming aware of what's happening in your IT and taking relevant and effective action. There are several other technologies that have to be used to minimize exposure, and contain, and remediate relations to an attack. I believe IBM has a few of those, that can be integrated. But whichever you use at the end of this journey, if the original feed is not correct, not relevant, or not complete, you missed your goal in the first place.My 5 cents :)VS
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I´m not sure about this affirmation. There are a lot of other tools used.
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Hi, We all know it's really hard to get good pricing and cost information. Please share what you can so you can help your peers.
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I can't speak to the exact pricing. I've never looked at its commercial costs.
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Licensing is mostly dependent on the EPS, events per second. Depending upon the number of products that are integrated with the platform, we have to come to an optimal EPS value. I'm not very sure about the financials, however, the licensing cost cannot be as much as that for Sentinel, which is not very low. For customers who need medium EPS values, we advise QRadar. The basic out the box cost covers, the EPS value that you have specified, and then some archiving maybe. It should include at least six months of archiving and other functionalities. Most of the customers will go for the standard package and we don't have to go for extra archival or enhanced DPS. 10% to 15% of DPS can always be increased. It will not completely shut down the system, however, it'll start sending us notifications that the DPS is getting increased and then we can go for a higher licensing.
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