IBM Security QRadar Reviews

IBM Security QRadar

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Security information & event management (SIEM) platform

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Idaly
Idaly
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  • Industry: Semiconductors
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

A feasible solution for the detection of incidents, all our information is safe.

Reviewed on 2023/02/18

With IBM Security QRadar we reduce the risk of being vulnerable to a cyber attack, since the...

With IBM Security QRadar we reduce the risk of being vulnerable to a cyber attack, since the protection of this software is intuitive and prioritizes threats to be more effective in the security of our IT environment. It is a truly automatic process that guarantees the total protection of our data, has detailed reports and a very powerful response to cyber attacks.

Pros

It is a necessary software for all our business environment, since it guarantees that our information is safe, the dashboard is intuitive and understandable, the analyzes are effective so that threats do not enter and damage our information, I like the prioritization of threats, since neutralizes in order of importance, network forensics is very good, advanced searches are good, protection of our entire IT infrastructure is high, and we really like the trust that IBM Security QRadar places in us.

Cons

It has many features that somewhat limit the understanding of early adopters, it can be overwhelming the first time, but the quality of the results keeps our data safe and threats away.

Machindra
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

QRadar The Best SIEM Solution

Reviewed on 2024/01/30

The QRadar is the one of the best Security Information and event management (SIEM) tool. It...

The QRadar is the one of the best Security Information and event management (SIEM) tool. It collects the logs from company IT infrastructure at centralized locations and using correlation rules we can reduce the internal and external threat landscape. It makes special when we integrate different apps with like threat intel and other.

Pros

IBM QRadar has very simple user-friendly interface. The deployment and configuration of solution is very easy. The devices integration we can do easily with available Device Support Module

Cons

The integration get difficult when there is no available parser.

Alternatives Considered

Splunk Enterprise

Reasons for Choosing IBM Security QRadar

We were facing multiple integration and threat intelligence issue with exiting SIEM solution. We wanted have SOAR in place and QRadar provide all capabilities.

Switched From

ArcSight

Reasons for Switching to IBM Security QRadar

The Qraar SIEM having the capabilities as we were looking for. The feature of Qradar loke ease of navigation integration, real time monitoring is simplified.
Kevin
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  • Industry: Computer & Network Security
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 3.0 /10

QRadar Gets It Mostly Done At A Cost

Reviewed on 2020/09/01

I used QRadar for over 10 years, and have found great success in using it in a reactive sense when...

I used QRadar for over 10 years, and have found great success in using it in a reactive sense when other staff bring up security or connectivity issues; the ability to quickly show normalized logs -- along with the raw log output for the skeptical staff out there -- is a real boon to quickly finding the root cause of an issue and moving on. The pricing and licensing schemes of the product have gotten more cumbersome since the purchase of the product by IBM, and their support channels exhibit the kind of mind-numbing bureaucracy you can expect out of such a large organization.

Pros

When aggregating log information, the ability to quickly click and pivot around between data sources and filter results on-the-fly worked very well for any reactive kind of events. The software also did a relatively decent job on identifying data and log sources and classifying them correctly.

Cons

The software can be very involved and cumbersome; expect to dedicate significant staff time towards it in order to keep it operational and to continually tune the software for false positives. For example, at an organization with over 2,000 employees I had to dedicate almost a single employee to perform tasks within QRadar, and nothing else. Along with that, in order to be successful your support staff must be extremely familiar with networking and understanding the reasons why devices send the logs that they do. This is not the case where you can point-and-click a few things and have a system that alerts you properly when attacks are taking place.

Alternatives Considered

ArcSight, FortiSIEM and USM Anywhere

Reasons for Switching to IBM Security QRadar

Ultimately, we were early adopters of the product and continued to utilize our initial licensing investment repeatedly when we upgraded our hardware. It was a known quantity that my staff had good familiarity in, although over the course of 10 years we were still not able to get the product to perform all of the features it said it could. This is partly due to my inability to get additional staff resources, as well as having a network layout that was decentralized and not relatively simple.
Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Banking
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

The Best Classical SIEM solution in the market

Reviewed on 2023/08/05

It's very convenient in terms of usage and visibility. We are mainly dealing with the Audits and...

It's very convenient in terms of usage and visibility. We are mainly dealing with the Audits and Qradar is the main factor that we've passed the Audits.

Pros

Easy to use. Learning curve is short. It's the same product compared to 10 years ago. It functions as it's expected. Expansion of the solution is easy. Reporting is inside the product and works well. Support is adequate.

Cons

There's no DataBroker or in short Kafka etc for filtering. AI and ML models is missing. Within the digital transformation and cloud migrations, it falls behind for the 3rd party integrations. I need to do the integration from the scratch for Saas or Paas services. Api integrations does not work well compared to similar solutions.

Alternatives Considered

Instaclustr Elasticsearch and Splunk Enterprise

Reasons for Choosing IBM Security QRadar

We have switched over the Symantec SIEM. It's dropped the product and solution.

Reasons for Switching to IBM Security QRadar

Symantec SIM, HP Arcsight, Elastic, Splunk are the other vendors. Symantec is dropping the product SIM.HP Arcsight has a high maintenance cost and lacks in expansion.Elastics is super costly in terms of operation and getting Elastic support is cumbersome.Splunk is a high cost alternative as we have a very big EPS-Storage rates.
Rajesh
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

IBM Qradar - an excellent tool for protecting our Digital security fortress

Reviewed on 2023/06/24

We needed a comprehensive security tool which can provide SIEM, SOAR, Threat intel, threat...

We needed a comprehensive security tool which can provide SIEM, SOAR, Threat intel, threat hunting and UBA and IBM Qradar provides all, hence the overall experience has been superb. Also, the excellent support from OEM makes it a win-win proposition.

Pros

IBM Qradar is the most stable and well known product in the market when it comes to the selection of SIEM tool and hence is an obvious choice for any . Excellent support from IBM OEM and management connect makes things simple to implement and support.

Cons

At this stage, we are liking all features about the product.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Wine & Spirits
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

QRadar is the best!!!

Reviewed on 2019/05/08

IBM QRadar is very good solution to assure integrity of logs. You can add all your log sources,...

IBM QRadar is very good solution to assure integrity of logs. You can add all your log sources, monitor logs, offenses. Also you can prevent and detect attacks and investigate incidents.

Pros

Easy to use. Easy integration with log sources. Assure security of logs is easy with QRadar.

Cons

Sometime use too more resources. The user manual can be more detailed.

Alternatives Considered

Splunk Enterprise

Reasons for Switching to IBM Security QRadar

The price is good. Very good resilience. Easy to use
Josh
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

IBM QRadar SIEM

Reviewed on 2019/05/20

Collect in secure mode all critical events from our critical resources. Identify and analysis...

Collect in secure mode all critical events from our critical resources. Identify and analysis incidents and attacks.

Pros

The IBM QRadar SIEM is a powerful tool. A mature solution to collect event and investigate incidents and attacks. The tool store in secure mode all events. The tool is easy to use. Easy to add log sources and analysis offenses.

Cons

The documentation of the tool can be more detailed.

Alternatives Considered

Splunk Enterprise

Reasons for Switching to IBM Security QRadar

Easy to use. Mature solution that assure security of the events.
Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

IBM QRadar- Captures everything

Reviewed on 2024/07/12

Excellent . Highly recommend for SIEM monitoring.

Excellent . Highly recommend for SIEM monitoring.

Pros

Its UI , Features, Policy definitions , Integrations.

Cons

Nothing as such . Its a fantastic Product

Abhishek
Abhishek
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  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Secure your Network with QRadar

Reviewed on 2023/03/12

Pros

1. It is one of the best software of SIEM in the market.2. Any offense can be monitored easily on a single console.3. Customer Support is amazing

Cons

1. It is a bit expensive when you buy it for local servers.2. One of the most expensive tools for cloud-based SIEM tools.3. It's a bit professional tool and that's why beginners get issues when using it.

Danielle
Danielle
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  • Industry: Information Services
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

High-quality monitoring that protects us from threats.

Reviewed on 2023/01/05

We integrated IBM Security QRadar because it is a much more functional SIEM software than the...

We integrated IBM Security QRadar because it is a much more functional SIEM software than the others, the usability, security, analysis and incident resolution features are amazing, it also allows a quick response to threats found in the network. It is the perfect software to monitor our infrastructure and prevent threats from entering and damaging our system.

Pros

I like that it has an easy to understand user interface, detection of threats is accurate and neutralizes them before they cause damage to our system, it is customizable and reduces the risk of damage to our system. It has detailed reports that help us understand what is happening and does not detect false positives.

Cons

It is a high quality SIEM product, it has big differences in functions and results compared to others and although it is not so easy to use the software for the first time, it has a simple interface that you can learn to use and customize in a short time.

Ilario
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  • Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

one of best solution in the market

Reviewed on 2025/01/11

We decided to use QRadar as SIEM for our SOC system based on comparison of products 5 years ago

We decided to use QRadar as SIEM for our SOC system based on comparison of products 5 years ago

Pros

Robust SIEM product with a hybrid on-premise and cloud delivery model, one of the best in the market

Cons

price model only based on EPS and overall price compared to other solution

Alternatives Considered

FortiSIEM and Splunk Enterprise

Reasons for Switching to IBM Security QRadar

was best of market at the moment of choice
Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

A Good SIEM for a SOC

Reviewed on 2023/05/11

QRadar has been acting as the go to SIEM tool in many SOC deployments due to its ease of deployment...

QRadar has been acting as the go to SIEM tool in many SOC deployments due to its ease of deployment and the straightforward integrations being available out of the box. Threat and incident prioritisation allows the effective response to possible attacks compared to other SIEM platforms with ease of hunting for dormant and persistent threats.

Pros

The ease of deployment in the all-in-one VM appliance coupled with the simple log integrations are really helpful in the deployment of the platform, onboarding of log sources and to perform troubleshooting and development of custom parsers. Further, intuitive dashboards makes the administration and analysis more easier compared to other SIEM platforms.

Cons

Compared to other SIEM solutions, QRadar would require the integration with a separate solution to achieve the FIM capabilities. Similar to above, getting logs from windows servers can be of a bit tricky. The solution has a number of features and capabilities and deployments in distributed architecture could be troublesome if the team is either new to product or have not got a comprehensive idea about the architecture and features.

Udhayasimha
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  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Best SIEM for highly productive teams

Reviewed on 2022/09/23

Very pleased and would definitely recommend for any sized company. For teams starting with a SIEM...

Very pleased and would definitely recommend for any sized company. For teams starting with a SIEM solution it is highly recommended

Pros

Easy to implement correlation rules. Provides a very user friendly interface and with a few clicks can easily build monitoring rules. Has built in alert management tool

Cons

I think the UBA component can be improved to include machine learning. Rather it is currently based on static correlation rules

Alternatives Considered

Splunk Enterprise

Reasons for Switching to IBM Security QRadar

Easy to work with and cost effective
Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Protect your environment from cyber threats Using Qradar

Reviewed on 2022/07/23

Best Siem.
Good UI, very user-friendly.
We can use both ariel query as well as GUI for working on...

Best Siem.
Good UI, very user-friendly.
We can use both ariel query as well as GUI for working on logs or alerts.

Pros

It is one of the most user friendly SIEM tool, I have worked with. UI is quite good and navigation is very easy.
As being a part of SOC team, it is helpful in detecting, investigating and prioritizing threats/alerts.
We can create use cases based on threat condition, which will trigger an alert in case of threat defined in the use case, which will make our threat monitoring easier.
It helps in securing our assets, endpoints, network everything.
We can create dashboards and download reports.
We can create reference sets for any IOCs or any other data which will be helpful in usecase creations or finetuning.
it can be integrated with soar solutions for our ease.

Cons

Sometimes due to less EPS, we might face Event drops during heavy flow of data.
Creating dashboards for any real time detection can be difficult.
Sometimes API calls fails while working on SOAR for the automated usecases.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Computer & Network Security
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

One of best and Power Full tool for SIEM logs.

Reviewed on 2022/06/25

Overall this is one of the greatest solution and helps securing the organization from silent...

Overall this is one of the greatest solution and helps securing the organization from silent threats. With bit expertise available in SOC, this can be huge saver for organization from different threats.

Pros

To collect Security logs at one place is one of most important and critical feature for any organization. Further we can have different use cases applied on the logs and we will be able to identify threats easily by applying expert analysis from the tool.

Cons

I think there is a gap in UI, it can be more improved and easy to use.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Services
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

QRader - The SIEM

Reviewed on 2019/06/21

Pros

Qrader is best tool for information security. we have integrated qrader with our firewall and proxy, we work on offenses which are generated by qrader when it detects or find any suspicious behavior. we can write policies to get alerts in qrader.

Cons

Most of the offenses which qrader generated are false positive so it should develop their with more features and detection capabilities

SUCCESS
SUCCESS
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Security at it's peak

Reviewed on 2019/07/10

Pros

Security Innovation event management system is excellent as it has endless layers of security for a company's firewall

Cons

To be sincere, the only way this system can be flawed is when pass codes are compromised within

Stefan
Stefan
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  • Industry: Banking
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Documented Product. Easy Installation. Meet Our Expectation

Reviewed on 2018/12/24

Meet our expectation. All features that we need. Collect all critical events based on our configurat...

Meet our expectation. All features that we need. Collect all critical events based on our configuration

Pros

It was a good experience. Implementation was easy.

Cons

Too much documentation. Complicated instructions.

Houcem
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  • Industry: Telecommunications
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

Full featured SIEM solution - at a price

Reviewed on 2021/01/21

A robust SIEM solution that requires a fair amount of tuning to reduce the number of false positives

A robust SIEM solution that requires a fair amount of tuning to reduce the number of false positives

Pros

Overall product stability
Predefined log normalization functionnality
Diverse feature set
Perpetual licensing

Cons

Licensing model: the EPS (events per second) cap limits the amount of logs that can be ingested in Qradar
Can produce a lot of false positives

Alternatives Considered

Splunk Enterprise
Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Government Relations
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Qradar

Reviewed on 2022/05/01

Best security tools market leader

Best security tools market leader

Pros

User friendly easy to manage, customisable dashboard.

Cons

Some part of qradar is little bit complicated.

Stacey
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  • Industry: Internet
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Unlock insights and quickly detect and eliminate security threats faster

Reviewed on 2022/06/27

Great integration and streamlined workflow with improved speed of threat investigation with...

Great integration and streamlined workflow with improved speed of threat investigation with automated in-built intelligence.

Pros

Powerful product with advanced threat detection capability and excellent automation and analytical functionality that provides us with data-driven insight and helps gain full visibility into the root cause and take immediate action.

Cons

Great integration with most products in use and a highly flexible product to future business demands and deployment options to choose from. Nothing to dislike.

Darius
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

The best SIEM ever

Reviewed on 2019/05/15

Store in secure mode all our critical events. Help to prevent and investigate attacks and incidents.

Store in secure mode all our critical events. Help to prevent and investigate attacks and incidents.

Pros

Easy to implement and administrate. Good price. The vendor offer good support. Big user community. Run fast. Easy to add and manage log sources.

Cons

Nothing. We like this tool. And recommend to other to use it

Alternatives Considered

Splunk Enterprise

Switched From

Splunk Enterprise

Reasons for Switching to IBM Security QRadar

Good price. Good functionality.
Thusitha
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  • Industry: Computer & Network Security
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Easy Way To Monitor Your Assets

Reviewed on 2021/05/15

In my opinion, IBM QRadar is a very good choice. Because I'm currently working with few customer...

In my opinion, IBM QRadar is a very good choice. Because I'm currently working with few customer locations where IBM QRadar established. So it was very easy to learn and get audit logs and do security auditing with this IBM QRadar SIEM.

Pros

IBM QRadar is one of the best SIEM in the industry. Also, it's providing a wide range of inbuild functionalities that you can customize with your requirements. Furthermore, it has a very unique and simple GUI design.

Cons

Even we bought the number one SIEM in the industry, we need to do the correlation part to fine-tune the SIEM to get the valuable output. So, the correlation was difficult with IBM QRadar.

Mikhail
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Leader of SIEM

Reviewed on 2018/10/10

We chose QRadar as this is one of the most competitive SIEMs in the market. I would suggest QRadar....

We chose QRadar as this is one of the most competitive SIEMs in the market. I would suggest QRadar. It's a great product.

Pros

I have used QRadar for a few years. We run it in a big environment. The benefits are flexible and scalable architecture, efficient reporting, the data consolidation and search capabilities.

Cons

The dashboards should be improved. Generally, we absolutely satisfied with QRadar, but I did not compare it with some other tools.

Wenqiu
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  • Industry: Internet
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

My Recommendation for IBM Security QRadar

Reviewed on 2022/06/03

Investigate, detect and remediate cybersecurity threats.

Investigate, detect and remediate cybersecurity threats.

Pros

I like how IBM Security QRadar easily investigate, detect and respond to threats on devices and endpoints on company network.

Cons

Our internal support team eradicates issues as soon as they arise.