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We performed a comparison between i-SIEM and IBM Watson for Cyber Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"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."

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"The most valuable features of IBM Watson for Cyber Security are ease of use and out-of-the-box reports and compliance policies. Additionally, if there are aspects that are missing IBM add them in the next release.""The customer support is very good.""The most valuable feature of this product is innovation, where the research and upgrading of technology never ends.""IBM Watson for Cyber Security is very stable."

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"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."

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"They need to continue to build the AI capabilities.""The dashboard could improve in IBM Watson for Cyber Security.""In the future, I would like to see threat intelligence included.""This is an expensive product, so making it more cost-effective would be an improvement."

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  • "With a higher degree of fidelity in the alarms, we were able to avoid adding additional resources to our teams. We take into account the cost of security resources in the market and the significantly higher fidelity from the alarms that are being generated. This drove down our costs with our MSSP. It drove down my cost for human capital internally. It drove down our need to have multiple resources supporting the underlying infrastructure and health and maintenance of empow as a platform from several resources down to one. Therefore, human capital costs were significantly reduced. Our operating expenses were significantly reduced. Our capital costs were significantly reduced while tripling our capacity and our run rate reduced. It was almost a "too good to be true" situation. Fortunately, for us, it worked out very nicely."
  • "I don't have to put up with any longer with these hypercomplex licensing agreements. Every time I want to add some additional reporting as a compliance centric or regulatory specific, e.g., GDPR, PCI, or Sarbanes-Oxley, many providers would have an additional license for this, which felt a bit ridiculous to me. With the simplified licensing architecture, there were no hidden "gotchas" down the road with empow. Something I have experienced with other providers that I've worked with in the past."
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  • "The price of this solution should be lower, although I understand why IBM charges a premium price."
  • "IBM Watson for Cyber Security is very simple to license and is priced well."
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    Overview

    If you had to invent the perfect SIEM from scratch it would combine a rules-free engine and a voluminous and continually updated database of threats. Well, the dream SIEM is here today. empow uses its proprietary AI and natural language processing to read the minds of attackers and determine the intent of each kernel of IP data.

    This power is now integrated with Elastic’s database and search capabilities. Think of it as an integrated “i-SIEM empowered by Elastic" - bringing enterprises a single place to manage all of their IT and data security functions. It’s a scalable data lake solution, with empow’s SIEM serving as an active infrastructure brain that detects, confirms and prevents attacks before they do harm.

    Watson for cyber security can draw security intelligence from millions of security blogs, online forums and white papers - so you can see threats unseen by other systems.
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    University of Oklahoma, Donnelley
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    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company21%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Healthcare Company12%
    Real Estate/Law Firm9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company17%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    Government8%
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    Small Business32%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise53%
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    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise24%
    Large Enterprise53%
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    Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
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    i-SIEM is ranked 44th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) while IBM Watson for Cyber Security is ranked 45th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 4 reviews. i-SIEM is rated 9.0, while IBM Watson for Cyber Security 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 Watson for Cyber Security writes "An innovative and stable product that is well maintained and always up-to-date". i-SIEM is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, AlienVault OSSIM and AWS Security Hub, whereas IBM Watson for Cyber Security is most compared with IBM Security QRadar and Splunk Enterprise Security.

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