We performed a comparison between i-SIEM and IBM Security QRadar based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk, Microsoft, Wazuh and others in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)."As a result of the automation, we are able to manage SIEM with a small security team. I'm in a unique position where we have been growing the security organization quite rapidly over the last three and a half years. But, as a direct result of the empow transition and legacy collection of tools towards the empow platform, we've been able to keep that head count flat. We've been able to redirect a lot of the security team's time away from the wash, rinse, repeat activities of responding to alarms where we have a high degree of confidence that they will be false positives, adjusting the rules accordingly. This can be a bit frustrating for the analyst when they have to spend hours a day dealing with these types of probable false positives. So, it has helped not only us keep our headcount flat relative to the resources necessary to provide the assurances that our executives expect of us for monitoring, but allows our analyst team to spend the majority of their time doing what they love. They are spending their time meaningfully with a higher degree of confidence and enjoying getting into the incident response type activity."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is how it monitors the real network. That is its leading security feature."
"In addition to using this solution for our security operations center, we are using it for our other customers."
"No doubt about it, the solution is extremely stable."
"Due to the skills shortage, we are able to use it from the standpoint of bringing in a lower level employee or a person who may not have security knowledge."
"IBM QRadar Advisor with Watson is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the searching capability and real-time operational use."
"The event collector, flow collector, PCAP and SOAR are valuable."
"Overall a great solution."
"Relative to keeping up with the sheer pace of cloud-native technologies, it should provide more options for clients to deploy their technologies in unique ways. This is an area that I recommend that they maintain focus."
"While the interface is easy to use, it could be a little more responsive."
"The implementation of the solution's technology needs to be simplified."
"The released patch quality is poor. IBM should test those patches on their side, not on the client's side."
"The solution is expensive compared to other products."
"The user interface is a bit clunky, a bit hard to find what you need."
"The product does not have a team for investigating malware."
"The only challenge is that IBM has been a closed enterprise. It should be more open to integrating with other providers at an enterprise level. We're a bank and the core banking system integration is not way straightforward and there is no integration between IBM and these products. If IBM could open up and provide a way of integrating it seamlessly, without charging more for it, that would make a big difference."
"The API integration for AD is a problem when it comes to vulnerability management. If you want to incorporate multiple factor authentication it becomes a problem with the AD. It doesn't integrate well. That needs to be improved."
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i-SIEM is ranked 44th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) while IBM Security QRadar is ranked 4th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 198 reviews. i-SIEM is rated 9.0, while IBM Security QRadar is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of i-SIEM writes "The alert fatigue and false positive rates have just plummeted, which is really exciting". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Security QRadar writes "A highly stable and scalable solution that provides good technical support". i-SIEM is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, AWS Security Hub, AlienVault OSSIM and IBM Watson for Cyber Security, whereas IBM Security QRadar is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, Wazuh, LogRhythm SIEM and Elastic Security.
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