IBM Security QRadar Scalability
Frank Eargle
Information Security Engineer at Glasshouse Systems
Around five to ten users are using the solution in our organization.
I rate IBM Security QRadar ten out of ten for scalability.
Anto Sebastin
Technical Presales Engineer at Redington India Limited
We deployed the solution for an enterprise business. I rate the scalability of the tool an eight out of ten.
MUHAMMADNADEEM1
Deputy Director at Board Of Revenue
IBM QRadar is scalable to meet the growing needs of our business. As our network expands with additional devices and log sources, QRadar can easily accommodate them. We can also create specific use cases tailored to the nature of each log source.
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IBM Security QRadar
March 2024
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Kjell Morkeng
Head of Cyber security analysis at DNV Poland Sp. z o.o.
I haven't had any problems. We have never needed to add more memory or CPU.
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Artur Marzano
Security Analyst at Localiza
IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics is easy to scale.
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reviewer1886673
Director of Incident Response at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Anywhere from 25 to 50 users are using it. The primary users are security operations. However, then you do have some folks on the infrastructure side that also leverage QRadar. It wasn't always the case. That said, once we provided access to the infrastructure team, they enjoy using QRadar for looking at logs, and troubleshooting. That would involve the networking team and the server team. They also leverage it as well.
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SaiKrishna2
Cyber Security Analyst at Diyar United Company
The solution’s scalability is excellent.
25 users are using this solution.
I rate the solution’s scalability a nine out of ten.
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reviewer1974018
Technical Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is scalable and it is easy to add appliances or expand your license.
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Chetankumar Savalagimath
Delivery Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have expanded it. It is very good in terms of scalability. Because it is on the cloud, it can be scaled anytime. If I want to increase my CPU's RAM, I can do it. At any point in time, if I want to get additional licenses, I can just call support, and they will provide that.
I have around six customers who are using QRadar in a shared model. We do have plans to increase its usage. We are looking after different customers, and when they're ready, we can integrate it.
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Security Analyst at Localiza
There seems to be a cap-limit regarding scalability. IBM limits the amount of data you can send into the collectors so scalability-wise, it's not that optimum because sometimes we have a resource or a machine that tends to think it gets more events per second than it actually gets. Because of how the solution is made, If we send a large number of events to these event collectors, then they will start dropping events because we can't queue them. That seems to be by design — we aren't entirely satisfied with that. In this way, IBM kind of forces their customers to buy a larger license.
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Mohamed Elprince
SOC Manager at ALEXBANK
The scalability is not a problem and we have above three thousand in our organization.
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Elshaday Gelaye
Lead Technical Architec at Commercial Bank of Ethiopia
It's hard for me to estimate the number of QRadar users because all of our banking traffic and user activity will pass through QRadar. At the higher end, more than 25,000 active users might use QRadar.
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Mejda Guizani
IT Security Administrator at Zitouna Bank
It is a scalable solution.
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James Riffenburg
Principal Cybersecurity Consultant (Architecture, Engineering, Operations) CISO VCISO at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The solution appears to be scalable. I have used the solution in organizations with users ranging from 2000 to 10,000.
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DipeshBhawsar
Archtect manager at Principal Global Limited
The scalability is very good. It's not a problem.
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Berik Sultanbekov
CS engineer at AYACOM
It is scalable. It works for small, medium, and large enterprises. You can have a huge SOC, and you can implement it in a big company.
Our company has more than 5,000 assets, and we are covering them all with the QRadar system.
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reviewer1409433
Cyber Security Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
From an architect implementation perspective, the role that I have played is very limited. I'm not very sure about scaling. I'm not in a position to comment on that part. That said, once everything is implemented, I've noted that it's not as scalable as Sentinel or Splunk on the cloud, for sure. That is the same for LogRhythm and QRadar. Obviously, cloud-hosted applications will be more scalable and more resilient.
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Abbasi Poonawala
Chief Enterprise Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
You can scale it easily in the cloud with a given deployment topology. We have somewhere around 50 plus users.
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it_user634773
Senior Security Analyst at The Hartford
Scalability is good.
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reviewer2303580
Head of Cybersecurity at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
My company currently deals with around four to five organizations comprising medium to large companies where IBM Security QRadar is used.
it_user1369023
Senior Manager Information Security at Conduent (formerly Xerox Services)
Our deployment covers North America, South America and part of Europe. The product is easy to deploy and scale. Almost everyone in our organization is using this solution because most of our projects rely on this. Because of the compliance requirement, most of our projects have to be integrated with QRadar. Each business unit or each program that we have in another environment has independent access to the solutions. They might not be the end users, of course, but at least every admin team of every program unit has access to this tool so that they can see what's happening in their environment.
It also supports multi-tenancy. So, if you have multiple clients or multiple tenants in your environment, you can create logical containers for them. From a logical point of view, you can create separate disconnected containers for each client so that they can only see their data.
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Ayoub Jaaouani
Solutions Architectv at Smarttech247
I rate the tool's scalability an eight to nine out of ten.
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Global Security Engineering and Operations Director at a wellness & fitness company with 10,001+ employees
The scalability is great.
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CesarMolloja Rodas
Information Security Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The scalability of IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics is a six out of ten.
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Bobby Sandeep
Vice President - Technology & Managed Security Services at Valuepoint Systems
I rate the scalability an eight out of ten, and we have about 35 people using it.
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Yaw Agyare
Managing Director at Volta River Authority
The solution is scalable. Over 1,000 people in our organization use the solution.
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David Bosomworth
Security Sales Consultant at Google, LLC
The solution is very scalable.
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MUHAMMAD WAQAS
Relationship Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
The product works well for small or medium-sized enterprises.
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reviewer993816
Senior Security Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
IBM QRadar is scalable. We can scale it according to our requirements. We can scale it up, as per our requirement. We can increase the resources, we can increase the storage. We can do everything with QRadar.
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reviewer1106787
Works
The scalability of the product is very good. Sometimes we get requests for specific functionality and usually, we can accommodate that.
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reviewer1524594
Senior Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
It is very scalable, but it also depends upon how the implementation was done. We are providing services to one of the major brands in India. They have somewhere around 30,000 devices. We are currently managing more than 1 lakh QRadar users.
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Information Security Analyst at Allegiance Air
Scalability is nice, as well. We have a distributed environment and it's real easy to both manage and upgrade. Anything we need to do, we can do it from the console.
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Khalid Majeed
Cyber Security Consultant at Software Productivity Strategists, Inc. (SPS)
The solution is scalable. It can handle thousands of users or maybe even more. I'd rate the scalability nine out of ten.
We mostly deal with small or medium enterprises.
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reviewer1846212
IM Operations Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
IBM Qradar is a scalable solution.
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reviewer1846212
IM Operations Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
IBM QRadar Advisor with Watson is best suited for large enterprises.
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Ashok KumarLokhande
Cyber Security Consultant at raf
We have approximately 50 users and we keep expanding its usage. It is growing on the infrastructure level, as well as the EPS level.
Three or four administrators are all that is required for the maintenance.
I recommend this product for large enterprises.
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Yegor Skrynnyk
IT Specialist​ at IT Specialist LLC
I give the scalability an eight out of ten.
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Farid Lalayev
Cyber Security Student at Baku Higher Oil School
IBM QRadar is a scalable solution. My company currently has seven to eight different accounts on IBM QRadar, so it's a scalable technology. It has no problems with scalability.
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Ertugrul Akbas
Manager at ANET
The scalability of IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics is good.
We have two people using this solution. We do not have plans to increase usage.
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Jentle Mathew
Sr.Network Engineer at NTT Security
The scalability is fine.
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reviewer1518060
SOC Team Lead at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is scalable. The amount of users is dependant on what your needs are. You can have many users having access to the solution. For example, out of a 5,000 person network, you could have five with access to it for security.
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ChrisMcAndrew
Security Operations Manager at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
The scalability aspect of the product is very good. That was one of the reasons that we bought it. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so with relative ease. It's not hard.
Currently, all the members of the tech ops team use the product, and there are five of them.
We may not increase usage; we may switch to something else. That has yet to be determined. It's not set in stone.
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Daniel Sichel
Works at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Scalability is very good.
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chieftec1015569
Chief Technology Officer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution is scalable. We have a total of 19 users in the company. The solution is used extensively and we plan to increase the number of users.
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Attila Mate Kovacs
Senior Cyber Security Expert at a security firm with 11-50 employees
We have five to ten customers of this solution. My impression is that it can cost a lot to scale upwards. It didn't bother us in most cases, but that could be a problem for SMEs at times.
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reviewer1609413
Senior IT Technical Support at a training & coaching company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The scalability is very good. The product is scalable. A company shouldn't have trouble expanding it if they need to.
We typically work with banks and bigger organizations.
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reviewer1477878
Director of Information Security at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
It's very scalable.
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QRadar677
B.T. Güvenlik Yöneticisi at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
The scalability seems great.
We have five hundred people in our company. All of them are end-users, except for myself and one of my colleagues who are administrators. We have more that one hundred assets, such as databases, that are monitored by this solution.
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reviewer774660
Manager-Cloud Security Operations at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
The scalability is good, especially with the introduction of data nodes. As of now, it is not a problem.
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IT Director at MyEyeDr.
In terms of scalability, so far, so good. What we've purchased so far is well with the infrastructure that we have. I know there are options to buy additional components should I need them.
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Sr. Security Architect at American Airlines
The scalability is good. We have been using and increasing the applications most of the time.
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Security Operation Manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
The product is very scalable.
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Security Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
High availability deployments have serious upgrade issues.
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Information Security Analyst at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The scaling was done pretty well with IBM and the architecture teams. I think our system has scaled appropriately.
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willie.Na.
System Engineer at Trans Business Machines Ltd
We haven't tested scalability and currently have around 100 users. I'm responsible for maintenance.
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reviewer1216545
Cybersecurity Business Development Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
We have approximately 40 users using the solution.
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reviewer1501230
Head of IT Security, Governance and Compliance at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
We have had no issues with scalability and we have approximately 1,500 users. We are not using its full capabilities at the moment because we are still growing. In the next year or two, we will see.
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reviewer1318914
Information Security Specialist at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
Scalability was hard as it was on-prem. We needed to add more modules, and had to add more of the servers to stack it. It wasn't that a simple task at all. I wouldn't say that it scales well, although technically, you can scale it.
When we were using the solution, we had ten to 15 users on it. They were anyone from Information Security Engineers to regular IT admins.
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Sr. Security Analyst with 1,001-5,000 employees
We haven't really had any scalability issues. You are always limited to your EPS/FPM licensing, so you have to make sure you don’t exceed those limits.
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Director of Cyber Security at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
There are some vulnerabilities that may be further exasperated at our size, so they are trying to fix some of those issues and bring stability, but it's really product issues that don't scale right now.
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Security Operations Center Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We never scaled the product before we decided to remove it from our network. From all appearances, scalability was not going to be an issue.
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UzairKhan
Business General Manager at Mutex Systems
This is a scalable product.
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VijayKumar4
AVP - Cyber Secuirty at Cloud4C Services
The solution needs to be redesigned to allow for scalability or for extending it to the existing one. There is a need to do long-term planning and migration from an existing to a new one and this cannot be easily accomplished. Storage cannot be added to the installation. One must completely migrate to the new storage to add additional terabytes.
As such, the solution is not quite scalable. The scalability exists, but it requires migration.
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SachinGupta1
Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The product is very scalable and this can be done to a number of endpoints and towers. However, this is not very feasible, as it depends on the available in-house infrastructure.
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chieftec1015569
Chief Technology Officer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I would say that it is ok. I can buy licenses when I need to scale the solution.
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Information Security Analyst at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Apart from the pricing issues, scaling of the product with the infrastructure is pretty easy and convenient.
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reviewer1026825
Certified AIX I.T Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
This solution is scalable.
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reviewer1349439
IT Security Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
For me, the scalability is good.
At the moment, we have no more than 15 people working on QRadar. This includes analysts, forensics, internet response, and active directory.
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reviewer916710
Information Security Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's great! This is one of the major features of the solution.
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NetworkS3978
Network Security Engineer at a wellness & fitness company with 10,001+ employees
We have 65 servers globally, and I just got my own.
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Sr SIEM Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We did not encounter any issues with scalability.
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JohnTamakloe
Solution Architect at Ostec
The solution scales well, and it's easy to do. I'd rate it five out of five in terms of the ease of scalability.
We have a lot of users on the solution currently. We have customers on the product as well. There are likely more than 500 users inside and outside the organization.
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Kamal Abdelrahman
Country Manager at Magarah
IBM QRadar is scalable.
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Senior Security Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
This tool is very user friendly, and is scalable. But, we do use other products in tandem with it.
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Vulnera08667
Vulnerability Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I've seen no scalability issues in any of the environments where I am working at the moment. I've seen how it handles lot of load. I'm talking about a 5,000-user environment. It can handle a lot of logs and events coming through simultaneously.
If you spec it properly, with the proper hardware requirements, then it doesn’t crash. I've seen how people give it way less specs then it should have, and then it does crash. But that was the fault on the users’ side, and not the fault of the product.
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Cybersecurity Expert at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We have not really had scalability issues.
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Senior Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is a little bit too premature for me to comment on scalability but it is quite good, because they have already identified 10-11 projects that we we'll be using with this tool. So, we don't think scalability is going to be an issue.
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Gian Michele Roletto
SOC Manager at Nais Srl
It's a scalable platform.
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reviewer1598412
Management Executive at a security firm with 11-50 employees
We've got three customers on the solution currently.
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reviewer1590123
Senior Security Engineer at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees
The scalability is good and we have approximately 200 users using this solution.
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Md Saiful Hyder
AGM, Enterprise Solutions at Omgea Exim Ltd
The solution scales well. It's stackable, which means you can start small if you want and then just stack more and more. It's perfect for any size of organization, from small to large.
We have sold this solution to six organizations, however, as a whole, we have around 10 customers in Bangladesh. Their sizes vary.
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Andris Soroka
Co-owner and CEO at Data Security Solutions
There is absolutely no problem with scalability. It works very fine, especially when you are running just clients. It doesn't matter how many variants you have all across the culture. You can practically have different continents. It doesn't matter how many collectors are running. You can easily distribute the current license to multiple users, and all the collectors can upload it without any restrictions.
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Francis Chapet
Ingénieur d'étude R&D at DOGA
I only really use the solution myself. I can't speak to the scalability of the solution.
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reviewer810204
Lead Security Infrastructure Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
We have definitely not encountered any issues with scalability.
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Vulnera08667
Vulnerability Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I've seen no scalability issues in any of the environments where I am working at the moment. I've seen how it handles a lot of load. I'm talking about a 5,000-user environment. It can handle a lot of logs and events coming through simultaneously.
If you spec it properly, with the proper hardware requirements, then it doesn’t crash. I've seen how people give it way less specs than it should have, then it does crash. But that was the fault on the users’ side, and not the fault of the product.
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Security Consultant at Dimension Data
In terms of scalability, there is no doubt about it: It is perfect.
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Director SOC at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We have not needed to scale the solution.
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reviewer1488321
Managed Security Product at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is scalable.
It's kind of non-direct user component. It sits under the security operations center, so it won't be visible to the user, but it will be covering devices and users. It can support 100 to 10,000 devices. So it's kind of a back instance.
In terms of plans to increase usage, I'm currently in a management level, so I'm no longer into the directly technical part. But if there is a requirement, IBM QRadar is definitely one of my preferences.
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BALA
Program Manager at a tech services company
The solution is highly scalable. It is one of the reasons that we have chosen this product.
Currently, our network has more than thirteen countries deployed. A roadmap is in place for a total of forty countries, so twenty-six more will be added. Deployment is a continuous exercise for us in terms of increasing the number of devices and applications.
The EPS (Event Per second Licensing) is adjusted based on scale. At this time we have close to three or four hundred events per week. As we grow, we are expecting at least fifteen-hundred events per week.
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Vulnera08667
Vulnerability Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It's scalable.
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Security Consultant at Varutra Consulting
The scalability is good.
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Senior security analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We can scale it as big or as large as we want in our environment just by adding multiple sources. It's just, from a licensing standpoint, you hit a certain mark. You want to make sure you either ignore some of that, or you just have to get more licenses.
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Nimesh Bhatia
IT Security and Business Development Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Scalability is very good.
Everyone has used this solution for security purposes. We use it daily.
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Ashok Kumar Biswas
System Engineer (Cybersecurity) at Omgea Exim Ltd
I rate the scalability an eight out of ten. We deploy to many customers and have completed many POCs. We have a four-person team.
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Ahmed Hossam
SOC Analyst Tier 2 at IP Protocol INC
I think IBM QRadar Advisor with Watson is scalable.
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ParveshDhurmea
Assistant Engineer at Harel Mallac Technologies Ltd
We have approximately three customers and the total users that are using it would be approximately 200.
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Johan Wibisono
Solution Security Architect at PT. Sinergy Informasi Pratama
The scalability is easy but it comes at a high price.
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Mathieu Dorckel
Cybersecurity Engineer Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Not at all.
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MazenHindawi
Network and Security Technical Team Leader at a wholesaler/distributor with 201-500 employees
Technically, there are no scalability issues.
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Cyber Security Advisor / CISO / Healthcare Security Pro at OMC SYSTEMS LLC
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reviewer1136397
Team Lead - Information Security at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The solution scales well.
We have 45,000 users on the solution right now.
We do plan to increase usage soon.
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reviewer1520922
Regional Director, Customer Success (GTM Solutions & Services) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution is scalable. We have 15 customers using it at the moment.
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Marketdir9846
Marketing Director at a aerospace/defense firm with 1-10 employees
The solution is scalable. Currently, wehave between 50 to 70 users working with this solution.
We have plans to increase the usage of the product in the future.
it_user163854
Security Solution Architect with 1,001-5,000 employees
No scalability issues yet. We have sized the latest system to cope with up to 10000 eps and or only at about 4000 at the moment. Scaling is simply adding extra license as required at the moment. Easy.
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Muhammad Ali Aziz
Senior Manager Cyber Security Services & Solutions at Trillium
IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics is scalable. You have the EPS and closed license. I think scalability is not an issue because it is available on both the hardware and the software. You can install the software plans if you want, and there is also a hardware plan.
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SuhailWagle
Cyber Security Consultant at Gulf Business Machines
There's nothing better than QRadar when it comes to scalability. You can scale it to 100,000s of events per second. It can be scaled as much as you want. It has no limitations to it.
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Dmytro Petrashchuk
Chief Technical Officer at IT Specialist LLC
It could be quite scalable, but it is not so easy to use when you have a lot of users. Because of the user interface shortcomings, it's not so useful when you have thousands of users.
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reviewer1365630
Deputy General Manager - Network Security at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
I have not seen any issues with the scalability of the solution
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Md Nafiz Mahmood
Solution Manager at ZZTL
It is also scalable.
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Cyberspec67
Cyber Security Specialist at AEC
The solution is very scalable.
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Srijan-Sivakumar
Director of Market Enabling Solutions at Raksha Technologies Pvt Ltd
It is a combination of multiple factors. The issues is from the customer side, not from QRadar. If you are able to get the right details from the customer, this solution is scalable.
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Country Manager at Magarah
I have found IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics to be scalable.
We have approximately 15 clients using this solution.
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reviewer1168407
Sr. Information Security Analyst at a insurance company with 51-200 employees
It's scalable. Everything is done through our third-party vendor.
We have four other people in my group that have access to it, and we have six people who use it.
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WiseCat
Enterprise Architect, CISSP at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Scalability has not been a problem, although our environment is not very big. Perhaps at a later stage and with a bigger environment, we might have issues.
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Cybersecurity Practice Lead at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
It's also scalable yes. You can adjust the number of devices it communicates with so there is no problem with scalability.
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Dr Trust Tshepo Mapoka
Senior Cybersecurity Consultant at CIA Botswana
Scalability is good. I have plans to increase usage it just depends on the contracts. If I get more contracts I get more people. Most clients want to manage security and so they would want to outsource their expertise. If they outsource their expertise that means I have to recruit more people.
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Security Analyst at a government with 10,001+ employees
I think it is scalable.
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Group CIO at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Scalability is good because it is a cloud-based offering and a managed services offering solution. The scalability is left for IBM to manage, so it's not a headache for us to manage.
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Security Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I did not encounter any scalability issues.
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Information Security Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
No, I did not face issues with scalability. One of the great features of QRadar is the ease of scalability. A license upgrade is simply done by purchasing it and applying it through the GUI which only takes minutes to. If an organization wants a larger expansion, all that it has to do is to buy the required hardware with QRadar installed, and “link” it to the main deployment through steps that also take minutes. This new hardware will provide the extra events per second or flows per minute capabilities required for the expansion.
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reviewer952638
Information Security Leader at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have three customers using it and these customers have 100 to 300 users.
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FarhanAli
Security Analyst at a security firm with 11-50 employees
QRadar is easily scalable in many ways: vertical and horizontal.
- Horizontal: You can increase the QRadar processing power with QRadar App Node and Data Node.
- Vertical: You can always implement multiple QRadars: Event collectors and flow, collectors, and then you can route your offenses, such events and flows from one QRadar to the next one.
it_user632760
Lead Developer
We are not directly managing this product. I am from the integration team and the QRadar solution is mostly used by our information security.
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Senior System Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We never experienced any scalability issues. If you correctly estimate the amount of EPS (the license variable), then scalability is not a problem. They can run in a really big environment (100,000 EPS tested in production) and all the infrastructure will work as a charm.
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reviewer1665357
IT Security Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
We have less than five people using it.
For us, as a small security company, it is covering our needs and our growth.
OK
reviewer1388217
Analyst at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Scalability might be an issue, but maybe it's because in our environment we do not use the application host. Since we use on-premise appliances we did notice that performance degraded a little when we added some plugins. So the recommendation was that we should have a separate application server that would host the application and then interface with the plugins and interface with the management console. But we do not have that within our environment so I can't speak to whether that would improve performance.
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Onyegbule Uche
Technical Consultant at activedge
The solution is very scalable; it's designed to be, it's distributed architecture. It's entirely scalable.
Currently, there are five domain users working with this solution. We don't have visibility on our end user count due to the fact that end users don't need to log on to the application.
Our maintenance needs require just one experienced QRadar analyst to moderate.
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D.M.Hashim-Ul- Alom
Senior Server Security Engineer
Scalability is good. If you use APS 25 GPS license you can change to 3000 EPS anytime. Also, you can integrate a distributed solution with the all-in-one deployment. If you have a very small organization, you don't need model 5000 EPS license so you can deploy all-in-one and then one day if your organization grows bigger, you can deploy a distributed system.
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Sebastian Osterc
Member at CIFAL Argentina
The scalability is awesome, because QRadar includes other solutions in the same console.
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Security Intelligence at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
There were no scalability issues. With this Event Processor and Data Node concept, I think it is highly scalable.
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reviewer594315
Assistant IT Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
IBM QRadar is a scalable solution. We have about 100 users at the moment.
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reviewer1610610
Network Security Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
I have found IBM QRadar to be scalable.
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reviewer1593615
AVP - Security at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The solution is scalable. Our customers that are using this solution are mainly large-sized companies, such as the government.
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Luis Yndigoyen
Partner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
No scalability issues.
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Olakanmi Oluwole
Cyber threat Intelligence Manager at CyberLab Africa
We have approximately 20 people using this solution in my organization.
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Larbi Belmiloud
Security Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
In my experience the upgrade, it could lead to some misconfiguration. We had this experience of disruption when upgrading the 7.2.7 to 7.2.9 and then 7.3.0.
We observed that some application and configuration needs to be redone. The scalability at this moment, because it's an older version, has some issues. Otherwise, I think scalability is excellent.
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reviewer1022949
Team Lead & Principal Software Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
You can scale the architecture of the QRadar easily by adding licenses.
Small to medium-sized organizations would require one to two people for maintenance while man power for large organizations would be determined by the architecture.
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Joao Manso
CEO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The solution is scalable.
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reviewer1623684
Security Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
When it comes to the scalability of the solution, it is possible to install many apps on top of IBM QRadar which can provide a host of views, such as those involving user behavior and analytics. There is no need to construct an SQL report, for example, as there are many free apps available which can be used to extend one's IBM QRadar functionalities.
it_user984276
Senior Analyst at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
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senior0997
Senior Field Manager at a tech services company
It's quite scalable. We have upgraded some solutions from 1000 APS up to 3500 APS to 5000 APS. It's a good solution, they have no scalability issues.
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Douglas Concepcion
Security Solutions Architect at Micro Strategies
It is very scalable. It does a good job.
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IT Security Manager at a tech services company
There were no scalability issues.
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Oscar Orellana
Founder at a university with 11-50 employees
It has good scalability. It is easy to scale, but it is a little bit expensive to scale because you have to pay a lot for everything.
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reviewer1342335
Principal Security Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Augmented solutions are very tough to scale because you already fulfilled how well you fulfill the software and then you will have to limit the scalability. That is a problem.
Our clients are small, medium, and enterprise size.
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Dameer Siddiqui
Works at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
IBM QRadar is easy to scale. We can integrate other devices if we want to. We could go to distributed architecture instead, but we like this product. It doesn't affect the environment. In our office, we have around 40 - 50 users, but our clients have more users on their networks.
Our organization has staff in the software department that manages IBM QRadar for us. The security division just manages the login. Overall, only two to three staff are required for the management of IBM QRadar. They are more than enough to control the situation because most of it is easy. We definitely have plans to increase our current usage of the solution in the future.
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Senior Security Engineer at dig8labs
The scalability is good. I'm quite satisfied with it.
View full review »it_user575124
Sr. Security Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I did experience some scalability issues in one organization.
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Kashif-Jamil
CEO at Xcelliti
QRadar is a scalable solution.
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Technical Security Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The scalability of this product is very flexible because of the way that it counts the events that exceed the threshold of licenses it handled with the queue and stores the data for 5 GB, dealing with the events in a first-in, first-out (FIFO) methodology.
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reviewer1305144
Technical Presales at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
This is a scalable solution, we have customers who have scaled.
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reviewer1385793
Queretaro at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
This is a scalable product that can scale to a large-sized organization.
My client for QRadar is medium-sized.
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Senior Information Security Analyst at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
It's very scalable. There are currently five users. We may still onboard more users depending on the requirements and their departmental level.
We do plan to increase usage.
View full review »it_user956985
Sr. Security Engineer at OmnitechIT
The scalability is good. Internally we have many customers, but we offer this as a specific consultancy service. I do not know with certainty the number of users for this product in our customer environment.
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reviewer841053
Cyber Security Team Leader at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
We've only been using it for eight months so we haven't scaled much during this time but it seems to be very scalable. We use it a minimum of eight hours a day.
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Cyber Security Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Scalability has been very good. If you need to add to the environment at any given time, based on a merger or acquisition, a new office, or a new data center, you can simply forward events from those centers or add additional hardware. You can include it right into your implementation.
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reviewer1382016
Pre-Sale Consultant (Technical) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We have not tried to scale because it is installed all in one machine.
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