Exabeam vs IBM Security QRadar comparison

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Sentinel
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Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
2nd
Ranking in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
87
Ranking in other categories
Microsoft Security Suite (5th)
Exabeam
Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
28th
Ranking in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)
13th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) (5th), Security Incident Response (7th), Threat Intelligence Platforms (21st), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (4th)
IBM Security QRadar
Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
4th
Ranking in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
198
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (6th), User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) (1st), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (19th), Managed Detection and Response (MDR) (10th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (11th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of Microsoft Sentinel is 11.8%, down from 13.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Exabeam is 0.5%, down from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Security QRadar is 10.5%, up from 9.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Unique Categories:
Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)
22.4%
Microsoft Security Suite
5.5%
User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)
4.5%
Security Incident Response
5.0%
Log Management
9.8%
 

Featured Reviews

KP
Mar 21, 2023
Provides visibility into threats by creating alerts and enables us to ingest data from our entire system if we want
Microsoft Sentinel provides visibility into threats by creating alerts, which will generate an instance and notify us. We can also view files and prioritize alerts using Microsoft Sentinel. Additionally, there is a tool with Sentinel that allows us to check alerts, which will help us identify false positives and false negatives, which is very beneficial for analysts. Microsoft Sentinel helps us prioritize threats across our enterprise. Microsoft Sentinel's ability to help us prioritize threats is a very important must-have feature for our organization. Integrating Microsoft Sentinel with additional Microsoft solutions such as Microsoft Security Center is easy because we use a Microsoft agent. There is a default integration available with multiple connectors and we can use the agent to install data into Microsoft Sentinel. The integrated solutions work natively together to deliver a coordinated detection and response across our environment. We use a playbook for the response process. We also integrated ServiceNow tools and Sentinel for ITSM. We are also designing the playbooks to meet our requirements. Having the ability to integrate solutions with Microsoft Sentinel is an important feature. Microsoft Sentinel provides comprehensive protection. Our organization has a strong partnership with Microsoft. Most of the services we receive are quite cost-effective. Microsoft provides market listings, allowing us to design our solution and place it on Microsoft's market listings, resulting in mutual benefits for both Microsoft and our organization. We used Microsoft Defender for Cloud to get to the Azure security center for Sentinel. We wanted to work with a particular server but at the time the requirement was in order to use Defender we had to enable the solution across the subscription and not on one particular server. Microsoft Sentinel enables us to ingest data from our entire system if we want. Microsoft Sentinel enables us to investigate and respond to threats from one place. We can control everything from a single pane of glass. Microsoft's built-in UEBA and threat intelligence capabilities play a major role in our security. We can automate routine tasks, prioritize alerts using the playbook, and use the analytical rule's default settings when creating an alert. This helps to reduce false positives so that we only receive one alert for each issue. Microsoft's XDR enabled us to avoid having to view multiple dashboards. We can integrate a variety of tools with Sentinel, allowing us to monitor all relevant information from a single screen. The integration into one dashboard reduced our analytical work because it reduces the time required to review and respond to threats. The solution helped us prepare for potential threats proactively. Microsoft Sentinel helped our organization save money by preventing attacks. The solution helped reduce the threat detection time by up to 40 percent.
YJ
Apr 26, 2020
Good at security logging in our infrastructure but be prepared for problems if you start with a large implementation
We had RSA earlier, we were a mature client, we had a big bang kind of start. Exabeam was really prepared there. We had some issues that we were able to sort out. They sent very experienced engineers to help us with the issues we had. Now we have a technical account manager. We are very pleased with it. Now, it looks much better but it's a large implementation. If you have a large implementation with lots of data you can expect a few issues and problems. If you start off with a small implementation then it would be a different story. We started off with loads and loads of data that we wanted to ingest. After a couple of months, things look a lot better.
BS
Jan 13, 2022
Comes with a lot of predefined connectors and good correlation rules, but needs better reporting and doesn't have a SOAR system by default
We are using Azure Sentinel for our cloud-based solutions. The best functionality that you can get from Azure Sentinel is the SOAR capability. So, you can estimate any type of activity, such as when an alert was triggered or an incident was found. Azure Sentinel doesn't have many connectors for third-party SIEM solutions. Many customers are struggling with the integration of Azure Sentinel with their on-premise SIEM. If we start to collect all logs from our on-premise SIEM solutions, Azure Sentinel will cost much more than QRadar. If we calculate its cost over the next five or ten years, it will cost more than QRadar.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"If you know how to do KQL (kusto query language) queries, which are how you query the log data inside Sentinel, the information is pretty rich. You can get down to a good level of detail regarding event information or notifications."
"The in-built SOAR of Sentinel is valuable. Kusto Query Language is also valuable for the ease of writing queries and ease of getting insights from the logs. Schedule-based queries within Sentinel are also valuable. I found these three features most useful for my projects."
"Sentinel uses Azure Logic Apps for automation, which is really powerful. This allows us to easily automate responses to incidents."
"Microsoft Sentinel enables you to ingest data from the entire ecosystem and that connection of data helps you to monitor critical resources and to know what's happening in the environment."
"Microsoft Sentinel stands out among SIEM tools for its user-friendliness and powerful built-in query language."
"The best functionality that you can get from Azure Sentinel is the SOAR capability. So, you can estimate any type of activity, such as when an alert was triggered or an incident was found."
"While Microsoft Sentinel provides a log of security events, its true power lies in its integration with Microsoft Defender."
"The ability of all these solutions to work together natively is essential. We have an Azure subscription, including Log Analytics. This feature automatically acts as one of the security baselines and detects recommendations because it also integrates with Defender. We can pull the sysadmin logs from Azure. It's all seamless and native."
"The advanced analytics has a really great overview of user behavior."
"The user interface and the timelines they use are the most valuable features. The price model is very simple so that one can understand it easily and there are no surprises within it."
"I have customers that like the EUBA functionality of it. The solution has the ability to build a session, basically. It pulls a lot of information together, for example, everything a user does in a specific timeframe. It's quite helpful."
"Exabeam Fusion SIEM has a good performance and more advantages than traditional solutions."
"The way it can connect with AWS is very useful, and the integrations are pretty good."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"It's a very user-friendly product and it's a very comprehensive technology."
"The most valuable feature of Exabeam Fusion SIEM is the easy-to-use user interface."
"We have worked with other solutions, such as LogRhythm and Splunk. Compared to others, IBM QRadar has the best price-performance ratio so that you are able to reserve minimum costs. It starts settling in fast and gets the first results very quickly. It is also very scalable."
"What's most valuable in IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics is its higher availability than other tools."
"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 ability to transition from microscopic to macroscopic view, instantly, is very good."
"IBM Qradar's ability to simplify the number of events, not only on a technical level but by making that information easy to pan through the orchestration deduplication. It is very impressive given that we have hundreds of devices that send event logs through."
"On the back-end, Watson helps me figure out an exact problem, sometimes giving me the result."
"I have found visibility very helpful for analytics."
 

Cons

"They need to work with other security vendors. For example, we replaced our email gateway with Symantec, but we couldn't collect these logs with Azure Sentinel. Instead of collecting these logs with Azure Sentinel, we are collecting them on Qradar. We couldn't do it with Sentinel, which is a problem for us."
"Its documentation is not so simple. It is easy for somebody who is Microsoft certified or more closely attached to Microsoft solutions. It is not easy for those who are working on open-source platforms. There isn't a central point where everything is documented, and there is no specific training or certification."
"The interface could be more user-friendly. It''s a small improvement that they could make if they wanted to."
"We do have in-built or out-of-the-box metrics that are shown on the dashboard, but it doesn't give the kind of metrics that we need from our environment whereby we need to check the meantime to detect and meantime to resolve an incident. I have to do it manually. I have to pull all the logs or all the alerts that are fed into Sentinel over a certain period. We do this on a monthly basis, so I go into Microsoft Sentinel and pull all the alerts or incidents we closed over a period of thirty days."
"They should just add more and more out-of-the-box connectors. It is quite a new product, and it has a lot of connectors, and even more would be good."
"They should integrate it with many other software-as-a-service providers and make connectors available so that you don't have to do any sort of log normalization."
"If I see an alert and I want to drill down and get more details about the alert, it's not just one click. In other SIEM tools, you just have to click the IP address of the entity and they give you the complete picture. In Sentinel, you have to write queries or use saved queries to get details."
"Documentation is the main thing that could be improved. In terms of product usage, the documentation is pretty good, but I'd like a lot more documentation on Kusto Query Language."
"We still have questions surrounding hardware deployment."
"I believe if it were more flexible it would be a better product."
"We had a large volume right from the beginning and they weren't quite prepared for that. That's something that they should think about when it comes to customers that have a large volume to start off with."
"The organzation is rigid and not flexible in the way they operate"
"The initial setup of Exabeam Fusion SIEM is complex because it needs to integrate with the SIEM solution, but after this is complete it is straightforward."
"Adding to the number of certifications that they have, for example, ISO 27001, would be helpful."
"They need to focus on more of the MITRE ATT&CK Framework and coverage. They claim they cover about 70 to 80%. I'm not sure if it's really quite that much, however."
"They should provide detailed information about detecting phishing emails."
"Right now, if you look at the compatibility, if you need to deploy QRadar in a physical appliance you have only two choices of server, their own or a Lenovo server. In today's world, you cannot keep something tied to such a big brand. Clients want to be able to use whatever type of server they want."
"I have noticed the interface has room for improvement."
"It is very difficult to activate all of the network equipment, and it would help if it were made easier."
"The dashboard is pathetic and it takes a long time to perform a search."
"Ideally we would like a mobile version so that any alert that comes in will notify us in a mobile app, or by using SMS integration."
"The features that could be improved include the licensing model and the dashboards and all those presentations. Overall, the user experience part can be improved."
"The user interface needs improvement."
"IBM QRadar could improve the plugins and threat detection."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Sentinel is expensive relative to other products of the class, so it often isn't affordable for small-scale businesses. However, considering the solution has more extensive capabilities than others, the price is not so high. Pricing is based on GBs of ingested daily data, either by a pay-as-you-go or subscription model."
"For us, it is not expensive at this time, but if we start to collect all logs from our on-premise SIEM solutions, it will cost more than QRadar. If we calculate its cost over the next five or ten years, it will cost more than what we paid for QRadar."
"Microsoft Sentinel is pretty expensive, and they recently announced that they will increase the price of all Microsoft services running in Azure by 11 percent. Luckily, I'm not responsible for the financial side. For one of my clients, the estimated cost is 880,000 euros for one year. There are additional costs for the service agreement."
"Sentinel is fairly priced and pretty cost-effective."
"Currently, given our use case, the cost of Sentinel is justified, but it is expensive."
"It is certainly the most expensive solution. The cost is very high. We need to do an assessment using the one-month trial so that we can study the cost side. Before implementing it, we must do a careful calculation."
"Sentinel is a pay-as-you-go solution. To use it, you need a Log Analytics workspace. This is where the logs are stored and the cost of Log Analytics is based on gigabytes... On top of that, there is the cost of Sentinel, which is about €2 per gigabyte. If a customer has an M365 E5 license, the logs that come from Microsoft Defender are free."
"From a cost perspective, there are some additional charges in addition to the licensing."
"Exabeam Fusion SIEM's pricing is reasonable."
"The solution is expensive."
"They have a great model for pricing that can be based either on user count or gigabits per day."
"There is an annual license required to use Exabeam Fusion SIEM. The price of the solution should be reduced."
"It is cheaper than ArcSight."
"The tool's on-premise version is expensive. However, it is cheaper than Splunk. The hybrid model offers shared instances for customers, which is not expensive. Customers with a limited budget can opt for it. You can get premium support with licenses. However, if you need customized integration, you need to buy it."
"The price of this solution is a little high."
"There is a license required for this solution."
"It is overly expensive and overly complex in terms of licensing. They have many different appliances, which makes it extremely difficult to choose the technology. It is very difficult to choose the technology or QRadar components that you should be deploying. They have improved some of it in the last few years. They have made it slightly easy with the fact that you can now buy virtual versions of all the appliances, which is good, but it is still very fragmented. For instance, on some of the smaller appliances, there is no upgrade path. So, if you exceed the capacity of the appliance, you have to buy a bigger appliance, which is not helpful because it is quite a major cost. If you want to add more disks to the system, they'll say that you can't."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate IBM Security QRadar's pricing a five out of ten."
"It is costlier as compared to the other alternatives available in the market."
"The solution comes with a high price tag, while some of the competitors provide identical functionality in their offerings at no extra cost."
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Qradar vs. ArcSight
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
8%
Educational Organization
20%
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

Is there a common threat intelligence tool that aggregates multiple threat intelligence sources?
Yes, Azure Sentinel is a SIEM on the Cloud. Multiple data sources can be uploaded and analyzed with Azure Sentinel an...
What is a better choice, Splunk or Azure Sentinel?
It would really depend on (1) which logs you need to ingest and (2) what are your use cases Splunk is easy for ingest...
Which is better - Azure Sentinel or AWS Security Hub?
We like that Azure Sentinel does not require as much maintenance as legacy SIEMs that are on-premises. Azure Sentinel...
What are the biggest differences between Securonix UEBA, Exabeam, and IBM QRadar?
It mostly depends on your use-cases and environment. Exabeam and Securonix have a stronger UEBA feature set, friendli...
What do you like most about Exabeam Fusion SIEM?
The solution's initial setup process is easy.
What SOC product do you recommend?
For tools I’d recommend: -SIEM- LogRhythm -SOAR- Palo Alto XSOAR Doing commercial w/o both (or at least an XDR) is a...
What do you like most about IBM QRadar?
The event collector, flow collector, PCAP and SOAR are valuable.
 

Also Known As

Azure Sentinel
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IBM QRadar, QRadar SIEM, QRadar UBA, QRadar on Cloud, QRadar, IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics, IBM QRadar Advisor with Watson
 

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Sample Customers

Microsoft Sentinel is trusted by companies of all sizes including ABM, ASOS, Uniper, First West Credit Union, Avanade, and more.
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Clients across multiple industries, such as energy, financial, retail, healthcare, government, communications, and education use QRadar.
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