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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.

Cons:

So, the correlation was difficult with IBM QRadar.

IBM Security QRadar ratings

Average score

Ease of Use
4.5
Customer Service
4.4
Features
4.5
Value for Money
4.3

Likelihood to recommend

8.5/10

IBM Security QRadar has an overall rating of 4.5 out 5 stars based on 31 user reviews on Capterra.

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Idaly
Idaly
Project Manager in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Semiconductors, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

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

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: 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
Security Analyst in India
Information Technology & Services, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

QRadar The Best SIEM Solution

4.0 10 months ago

Comments: 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.

Kevin
CISO in US
Computer & Network Security, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

QRadar Gets It Mostly Done At A Cost

3.0 4 years ago

Comments: 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.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Banking, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

The Best Classical SIEM solution in the market

5.0 last year

Comments: 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.

Rajesh
EVP, Chief Digital Officer & Head of Cybersecurity in India
Information Technology & Services, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

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

5.0 last year

Comments: 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
Verified LinkedIn User
Wine & Spirits, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

QRadar is the best!!!

5.0 6 years ago

Comments: 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.

Josh
CEO in Moldova
Retail, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

IBM QRadar SIEM

5.0 6 years ago

Comments: 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.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 5,001–10,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

IBM QRadar- Captures everything

5.0 5 months ago

Comments: Excellent . Highly recommend for SIEM monitoring.

Pros:

Its UI , Features, Policy definitions , Integrations.

Cons:

Nothing as such . Its a fantastic Product

Abhishek
Abhishek
Intern in India
Verified LinkedIn User
Education Management, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Secure your Network with QRadar

4.0 2 years ago

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
Information Security Analyst in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Services, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

High-quality monitoring that protects us from threats.

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: 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.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

A Good SIEM for a SOC

4.0 2 years ago

Comments: 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
Senior Information Security Specialist in Canada
Financial Services Software, 5,001–10,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

Best SIEM for highly productive teams

4.0 2 years ago

Comments: 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

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

Protect your environment from cyber threats Using Qradar

4.0 2 years ago

Comments: 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
Verified LinkedIn User
Computer & Network Security, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

One of best and Power Full tool for SIEM logs.

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: 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
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Services, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

QRader - The SIEM

4.0 5 years ago

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
Freelancer in Nigeria
Verified LinkedIn User
Computer Software, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Security at it's peak

5.0 5 years ago

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
Dep. Head of Division Business Continuity Management, IT Oversight and Information Security Division in Moldova
Verified LinkedIn User
Banking, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Documented Product. Easy Installation. Meet Our Expectation

5.0 6 years ago

Comments: 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
Information Security Manager in Tunisia
Telecommunications, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

Full featured SIEM solution - at a price

4.0 4 years ago

Comments: 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

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Government Relations, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Qradar

5.0 3 years ago

Comments: Best security tools market leader

Pros:

User friendly easy to manage, customisable dashboard.

Cons:

Some part of qradar is little bit complicated.

Stacey
Technology Product Manager in Netherlands
Internet, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Unlock insights and quickly detect and eliminate security threats faster

4.0 2 years ago

Comments: 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
CEO in Moldova
Information Technology & Services, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

The best SIEM ever

5.0 6 years ago

Comments: 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

Thusitha
Information Security Analyst in Sri Lanka
Computer & Network Security, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Easy Way To Monitor Your Assets

4.0 4 years ago

Comments: 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
Security Architect in Russia
Information Technology & Services, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Leader of SIEM

5.0 6 years ago

Comments: 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
Sr. Software Engineer in US
Internet, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

My Recommendation for IBM Security QRadar

5.0 3 years ago

Comments: 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.

Ronald
Security Analyst in Brazil
Health, Wellness & Fitness, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

A good SIEM tool to monitor security events

4.0 3 years ago

Comments: It is in general a good solution to monitor the environment, events and suspicius connection attempts. It's a little hard to configure, adjust and to have realtime events in some cases.

Pros:

Good amount of information, several logs.

Cons:

Not so user friendly, not synchronized with realtime in some situations, a little hard to set rules.