We performed a comparison between IBM Security QRadar and Bitdefender GravityZone EDR based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: IBM Security QRadar users say the solution provides extensive information and helpful leads for locating pertinent data. QRadar stands out with its comprehensive network visibility and strong SIEM capabilities. Bitdefender GravityZone EDR offers comprehensive detection capabilities and an advanced management interface. It is known for its easy setup, scalability, and reasonable pricing. IBM Security QRadar could improve its rule deployment and lower its false positive rate. Users would also like expanded storage capacity, streamlined user management, and a more mature architecture. The reviews suggest that Bitdefender GravityZone EDR can improve by adding a built-in firewall, optimizing deployment, and enhancing encryption.
Service and Support: Some customers of IBM Security QRadar have had trouble connecting with knowledgeable support staff and experienced delayed responses. Opinions are divided about Bitdefender's customer service, with some users reporting prompt and helpful assistance and others experiencing responses and an overwhelming amount of emails.
Ease of Deployment: IBM Security QRadar's initial setup can be complex for users without expertise, and the difficulty may vary depending on the size of the data set. Users say Bitdefender GravityZone EDR is straightforward to set up, and deployment can be completed in less than a day.
Pricing: IBM Security QRadar can be costly because users need to buy new hardware to upgrade. Bitdefender GravityZone EDR’s licensing is considered reasonable, and contract lengths are flexible. There may be additional charges for extra features or services.
ROI: IBM Security QRadar delivers a high return on investment, improving security through its advanced user behavior analytics. Bitdefender GravityZone EDR offers varied ROI based on different situations.
Comparison Results: Our users prefer IBM Security QRadar over Bitdefender GravityZone EDR. The advanced security features and overall strength of QRadar make it the favored option. Users like QRadar's extensive and actionable insights, user-friendly interface, and adaptability. QRadar offers a comprehensive overview of network activity and risk management.
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"It is stable and scalable."
"Fortinet FortiEDR made our clients feel secure and more at ease, knowing that they had an EDR solution that would close the gap in their security posture."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's firewalling, rule creation, monitoring, and inspection profiles are great."
"Additionally, when it comes to EDR, there are more tools available to assist with client work."
"The console is easy to read. I also like the scanning part and the ability to move assets from one to the other."
"Forensics is a valuable feature of Fortinet FortiEDR."
"The price is low and quite competitive with others."
"The tool's graphical user interface is common and very friendly, making it an overall user-friendly product."
"The nice thing about Bitdefender is that it has modules and layers that you can add as the requirement becomes more sophisticated and dangerous or threatening."
"The advantage of the solution is that it has a console on the cloud and you can update the clients."
"The solution is probably one of the top five, best security solutions on the market at the moment."
"The most valuable features are the anti-malware and firewall policies. The runtime scans and execution have been beneficial to our business."
"Bitdefender GravityZone Ultra has many features, such as VPN, web filtering, and email filtering. The product has many good reviews, and I like how straightforward it is to implement. It's also easy to access and use."
"We have clients who are also migrating from other anti-virus solutions to GravityZone because of the ease of use, ease of installation and the fact that it can be deployed in the cloud and the same software; you can actually install on other server or workstation. It automatically knows what it's protecting."
"It was easy to set up."
"The interface is good."
"The most valuable features are the versatility of this solution and the variety of things you can do with it."
"Improves visibility and has a great new dashboard."
"The product can scale."
"In terms of the most valuable features, the log collections and log processing mechanisms are good. They have good dashboards."
"I like that it's easy to use and the performance is good."
"QRadar UBA's most valuable feature is the risk rating of users depending on their behavior."
"IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics has easy architecture, has a good portfolio and integration."
"It takes about two business days for initial support, which is too slow in urgent situations."
"Once, we had an event that was locked and blocked, but information about it came to us two or three days later."
"There's room for improvement in the quick response time and technical support for integration issues, especially when dealing with multiple vendors."
"I would like the solution to extend beyond endpoint protection and include other attack surfaces such as other network components."
"ZTNA can improve latency."
"The dashboard isn't easy to access and manage."
"We've encountered challenges during API deployment, occasionally resulting in unstable environments."
"We find the solution to be a bit expensive."
"The only problem we have, and I don't know if maybe it's the package we bought, is that it lacks the parts of data protection and application blacklisting."
"I would like to see the capability for remote installation added, in particular for servers."
"Occasionally websites are unnecessarily blocked due to monitoring software on those sites."
"The solution is sometimes resource-intensive."
"I would like to see a remote desktop for installed endpoints so administrators can see what is on a user's screen or what a user is doing."
"We find it's making the machines run slow."
"Areas for improvement would be performance and pricing."
"What would make Bitdefender GravityZone Ultra better is if Bitdefender employed more firewall policies and added even more features to the product."
"The product is good, but one feature they should have is an Elasticsearch. Currently, in QRadar, there are no Elasticsearch criteria."
"IBM QRadar has a margin for development, for out-of-the-box use cases. It can be enhanced with better support and automate the use cases for that."
"The weak signal detection with QRadar needs improvement. You can detect what you know, but what is unknown to the rule engine can't be detected."
"If you have too many events that occur, then the storage capacity becomes a problem. You need to have more storage."
"I would like to see the update process simplified."
"The pricing of the solution is a bit high. If they could lower it, that would be ideal."
"The modularity could be improved."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup due to bandwidth issues."
Bitdefender GravityZone EDR is ranked 15th in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) with 54 reviews while IBM Security QRadar is ranked 20th in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) with 198 reviews. Bitdefender GravityZone EDR is rated 8.6, while IBM Security QRadar is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Bitdefender GravityZone EDR writes "High-quality threat intelligence, including encryption and mobile device protection". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Security QRadar writes "A highly stable and scalable solution that provides good technical support". Bitdefender GravityZone EDR is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, CrowdStrike Falcon, Intercept X Endpoint and Check Point Harmony Endpoint, whereas IBM Security QRadar is most compared with Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk Enterprise Security, Wazuh, LogRhythm SIEM and Elastic Security. See our Bitdefender GravityZone EDR vs. IBM Security QRadar report.
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