We performed a comparison between AlienVault OSSIM and IBM Security QRadar based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The threat alerts it gives me from time to time on harmful code within the network, or if they are generating any network traffic, are very useful."
"Inbuilt IDS, inbuilt integration with threat intelligence platform and with vulnerability assessment modules."
"Asset discovery is good."
"Better than other SIEM solutions because almost everything can be integrated."
"The dashboard is the solution's most valuable aspect. It brings everything into one central point where I can actually look at it and go, "Okay, I understand what's going on.""
"The threat policies of the solution are always very advanced and the best in the market. They are very persistent in terms of keeping up with security protocols."
"The product is easy to use."
"AlienVault OSSIM's GUI is very user-friendly."
"Senses, tracks, and links significant incidents and threats."
"The scalability is awesome, because QRadar includes other solutions in the same console."
"No doubt about it, the solution is extremely stable."
"IBM QRadar is great help from its security event monitoring to data center and NOC troubleshooting of issues hard for other departments to spot."
"This solution provides me with various alarms, and I have found security issues with some of my other products."
"IBM QRadar Advisor with Watson is a stable solution."
"The best part of this solution is having a third-party SOC."
"The most valuable feature is the searching capability and real-time operational use."
"When comparing AlienVault OSSIM to other solutions it looks a bit outdated. Additionally, they need to improve their integration."
"The user interface needs to be friendlier across the board."
"AlienVault OSSIM could improve by having better integration with some of the newer tools."
"Lacking in depth of reporting."
"GUI could be improved."
"The solution needs more integration with cyber intelligence systems."
"The user interface could be improved."
"They can add more compliance templates."
"From a functionality point of view there are issues sometimes."
"The only problem is that if you have too many events that occur, then the storage capacity becomes a problem. We would need to increase the storage capacity."
"The solution is difficult to understand in the beginning and has complex management configurations that can be improved."
"I would like to see more integration in place after the security lock."
"IMB should reduce the pricing, or reduce some of the features for a more economical solution for the customer."
"I would like for them to develop a detection management solution. It does not have a detecting management solution in it, you have to buy it as it is, on top of the extended solution."
"I would suggest QRadar release any documentation or give an online demo, like videos on YouTube. It would increase publicity and public appeal."
"You can scale IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics, but it has room for improvement."
AlienVault OSSIM is ranked 11th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 28 reviews while IBM Security QRadar is ranked 4th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 198 reviews. AlienVault OSSIM is rated 7.4, while IBM Security QRadar is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AlienVault OSSIM writes "An easy-to-scale open-source solution used for monitoring events on devices ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Security QRadar writes "A highly stable and scalable solution that provides good technical support". AlienVault OSSIM is most compared with Wazuh, Elastic Security, USM Anywhere, Splunk Enterprise Security and Microsoft Defender XDR, whereas IBM Security QRadar is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, Wazuh, LogRhythm SIEM and Elastic Security. See our AlienVault OSSIM vs. IBM Security QRadar report.
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