IBM Security QRadar vs Secureworks Taegis Managed XDR / MDR comparison

IBM Security QRadar vs. Secureworks Taegis Managed XDR / MDR

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Security QRadar

Ranking in Managed Detection and Response (MDR)

7th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

217

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (6th), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (3rd), User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) (2nd), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (12th), Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (5th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (10th)

Secureworks Taegis Managed ...

Ranking in Managed Detection and Response (MDR)

15th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Managed Security Services Providers (MSSP) (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) category, the mindshare of IBM Security QRadar is 1.1%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Secureworks Taegis Managed XDR / MDR is 3.2%, down from 4.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
IBM Security QRadar	1.1%
Secureworks Taegis Managed XDR / MDR	3.2%
Other	95.7%

Managed Detection and Response (MDR)

Featured Reviews

HarshBhardiya

SOC Engineer at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees

Have managed daily asset and alert monitoring effectively but have encountered limitations with manual processes and interface usability

It's still very manual and doesn't work on its own. It's still in an early stage and not on par where we can consider it a really successful detection system. The accuracy is not there. The UI could be better when compared to Sentinels where we can use flags and tagging. It could be much more user-friendly. IBM Security QRadar has all features and is fully competitive with other SIEM tools, but when it comes to user-friendliness, a new user takes time to get used to it. More intuitive, user-friendly interfaces and more helpful documentation would be beneficial. The query searching and data fetching could be faster. In large to very large organizations with around 5,000 or 6,000 assets or beyond, even with proper configurations and RAM and hardware backing up, the query is fairly slow.

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reviewer2396166

VP International Business and Alliances at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Customers have found quick incident response and proactive security management through effective threat detection

Secureworks Taegis Managed XDR MDR is a great product that has not posed any challenges from my perspective. I am extremely happy with the quick response from the Secureworks team. After the Sophos merger, I look forward to seeing a better and more enhanced version of the product. The team does a phenomenal job with automatic maintenance.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"One of the most valuable features of this solution is it has very good data correlation."

"The query search and log fetching are really helpful in IBM Security QRadar when compared to other tools."

"I think it has improved our organization by the speed at which I can run queries compared to other software that I've used in the past."

"IBM has everything you need in a cybersecurity solution. If you want to build a cybersecurity operation center version then I think QRadar is a perfect solution."

"The most valuable feature for us is probably the intelligence we get out of the product."

"From a customer's point of view, it is one of the best solutions because you don't need to create correlation rules from scratch, you just review them and customize them as you want."

"The most valuable features are its ease of use and that it provides good return on investments."

"QRadar is the primary tool in our security center; we use it to collect information from different devices, detect, and analyze various threats or attacks to protect our system."

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"Secureworks Taegis Managed XDR MDR is a great product that has not posed any challenges from my perspective."

"We don't have a full SOC, so it's helpful to have them sifting through our alerts and only bringing actionable items to us."

"Securworks' threat intel seems pretty decent, and they integrate with several solutions we have, such as Azure AD, so all our Microsoft 365 stuff is covered."

"The pricing is flexible."

"The solution definitely made us way more aware of the possibilities out there."

"The initial setup was very straight forward."

"It provides more visibility and more control over endpoints. It reduces the noise. It clears things and only shows things that are really important. It only shows those things that need to be looked at or need to be investigated further. Other similar solutions give you a lot of alerts and other things, but Secureworks gives you a defined or less noisy view so that you can work or focus on things that are important in terms of investigation, response, and remediation."

"The advantage of using this solution is that the setup is done quickly and can be done in-house."

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Cons

"Although QRadar provides incident management of the alerts it produces, this area could use a little improvement to allow more restrictions on who can close alerts and easily updating alerts with and reading text templates."

"IBM technical support is always terrible."

"SOAR is what is expected the most from QRadar. They have something called SOAR Resilient, and it would be great if that gets induced in SIEM. IBM QRadar (as well as McAfee ESM) should have analytics platform integration. Currently, SIEMs don't have full-fledged integration with analytics where we are able to dump our data in SIEM, and the same data can be called from different analytics applications. We should be able to bring this data to a platform like Hadoop for big data and run the analytics there. Currently, people are seeing the past data and taking some actions in the present, but when it comes to analytics, there should be futuristic data where you can predict something out of your present and past data. Apart from that, I would like to see a full-fledged ITSM tool in QRadar. It sometimes has some technical issues that need to be checked. It requires a dedicated QRadar engineer to completely manage it. It has different module sets, such as event collector and event processor, and some technical glitches come in between. It takes the log but doesn't exactly process it in the way we want."

"We've used technical support and it hasn't been great."

"The AI engine could be smarter."

"AI is superb but need improvements."

"The architecture could be improved. I got stuck for a long time trying to understand the architecture, as it is quite challenging."

"IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics could improve machine learning use cases because they are limited and most of the use cases are rule-based."

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"Secureworks Taegis ManagedXDR's query language and stability need improvement."

"Tamper-proofing or tamper protection is still pending in Secureworks. Tamper protection will make it more secure. If I'm an admin of a device, I can uninstall an agent without the knowledge of the security or Secureworks admin. If someone gets hold of one endpoint with admin credentials, he can remove anything, and an organization will lose visibility. They need to work on providing more visibility across endpoints. A couple of times it has happened that the cloak agent is there, but it did not get activated, or there were some issues. The machine was restarted, but the cloak agent didn't run. In such cases, you have to troubleshoot. It is a big issue if a cyber attack is happening, and your machine is rebooted, but the events are not captured."

"Tamper-proofing or tamper protection is still pending in Secureworks."

"In terms of ROI, I'd be surprised if there is any investment return on the SIM."

"GUI for resolving tickets is terrible. Non-intuitive, offering a dizzying array of options, often none of which made sense even for common problems."

"The integration would look better with other products, with other EDRs, with other firewalls, with other older versions of firewalls, and the versions of software and hardware."

"It would be nice if the solution were a little more affordable."

"I would rate the scalability at 50%. We have been having a problem as we are shifting from a previous appliance to a virtual machine."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is a license to use this solution, which is paid annually. However, there are subscription options available."

"The price of this solution is reasonable."

"The solution is priced fairly, there is a license for the solution, and we pay annually."

"It is a perpetual license that we have for the event collector. The licensing is done based on the number of events and flows that you receive on this particular device. These are perpetual licenses, which means once you purchase them, they don't expire, which means that the support to IBM is definitely renewed after every one year. We have an enterprise agreement with IBM, which puts the cost in a totally different category as compared to someone who is not an IBM partner and is approaching IBM for this solution. We were able to get massive discounts. To give you an idea, we recently purchased 30,000 event licenses, and it costs around $480,000. It is definitely not a cheap product. We have licenses for about 270,000 events per second and 3 million flows per second. All the appliances and their events and flows are basically clubbed together and charged or rather calculated through a single source. The console receives all the details from all the event processes that we have globally. So, the license that we have is a single license for 270,000 events per second and 3 million flows per second, but that can be managed centrally. I was only part of the secondary purchase, which was 30,000 events per second for about $480,000. You can calculate how much we paid for 270,000 events. Reducing its price would be a compromise. We have already used a lower-priced product in the form of NNT, but we had to get rid of it because it was not doing the job that we actually wanted to do. You get what you pay for."

"The price could be better. I bought a subscription for three years."

"Most of the time, it is easier and cheaper to buy a new product or the QRadar box."

"The solution comes with a high price tag, while some of the competitors provide identical functionality in their offerings at no extra cost."

"It is cheaper than ArcSight."

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"The pricing of Dell Secureworks is very reasonable."

"The Red Cloak agent is free."

"The pricing for this solution is reasonable. One agent costs approximately 270 dirhams/70 USD for one year. There is a reduction in cost per licence as the number of licences used increases."

"Secureworks Taegis ManagedXDR is very expensive and could be more cost-effective."

"Initially, the cost was going to be something around $160 or $170. And eventually, I think they brought it down to $110 and they also threw in some endpoint protection platforms."

"The price is kind of on par. The licensing was comparable to other solutions. It's not particularly high or low."

"It is expensive but there is no better product than this."

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Comparison Review

Vinod Shankar

Manager, Enterprise Risk Consulting at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 28, 2015

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	91
Midsize Enterprise	39
Large Enterprise	105

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	4

Questions from the Community

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, friendlier GUI and are not licensed based on capacity (amount of logs and information in...

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 asking to miss details that are critical, and ending up a statistic. Also, rememb...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Security QRadar?

Pricing and the license of EPS were managed by the governance team. I was not responsible for managing those. I was supposed to put up the requirement of the license needed to integrate that amount...

What needs improvement with Secureworks Taegis ManagedXDR?

I would not say there is a potential area of improvement. I am also waiting to see what Sophos will bring in terms of enhancement. There is room for AI integration as the industry evolves, and more...

What is your primary use case for Secureworks Taegis ManagedXDR?

The solution is used for threat detection and response. We generally use it for quick responses during incidents and to secure our systems.

What advice do you have for others considering Secureworks Taegis ManagedXDR?

I would rate Secureworks Taegis Managed XDR MDR at ten out of ten. This solution provides excellent support and response.

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Also Known As

IBM QRadar, QRadar SIEM, QRadar UBA, QRadar on Cloud, IBM QRadar Advisor with Watson

Secureworks Red Cloak Managed Detection and Response, Dell Secureworks, SecureWorks Taegis Managed TDR

Overview

IBM Security QRadar offers real-time threat detection, data correlation, and integration with third-party solutions, providing a user-friendly interface, scalability, and extensive reporting capabilities for SIEM needs.

IBM Security QRadar is designed for comprehensive security monitoring in diverse environments, aiding sectors like telecom and finance with advanced threat detection and breach management. It aggregates data and analyzes user behavior, while its customizable and out-of-the-box rules deliver robust security insights and vulnerability management. The platform seeks enhancements in integration, performance, and user interface, with a focus on AI and cloud service compatibility.

What are the most important features of IBM Security QRadar?

Real-time Threat Detection: Monitors and alerts on security incidents as they happen.
Data Correlation: Aggregates and connects disparate data sources for cohesive analysis.
Third-party Integration: Supports seamless interaction with other security tools.
Scalability: Grows with organizational needs without sacrificing performance.
Customizable Rules: Allows tailored security settings for specific requirements.

What benefits and ROI should be expected?

Enhanced Security Insights: Offers comprehensive coverage across environments.
Reduced False Positives: Minimizes unnecessary alerts, improving efficiency.
User-friendly Interface: Simplifies navigation and analysis tasks.
Extensive Reporting Capabilities: Provides detailed insights for informed decision-making.
Compliance Focus: Assists in meeting regulatory standards effectively.

Telecom, finance, and cloud-based industries implement IBM Security QRadar for threat detection, compliance, and security monitoring. It is deployed for log collection and correlation, user behavior analytics, and ensuring secure data transfer and incident management, focusing on compliance and anomaly detection.

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Secureworks Taegis Managed XDR/MDR offers robust threat detection and response capabilities with valuable features including rapid alerting, flexible pricing, and comprehensive threat intelligence. Its integration abilities enhance value for users by providing clear, actionable alerts.

Tailored for advanced security operations, Secureworks Taegis Managed XDR/MDR provides a comprehensive security framework with IDS/IPS capabilities, real-time monitoring, and seamless endpoint control. Users benefit from its integration with platforms like Azure AD and support tools like Microsoft 365 and Carbon Black. Machine learning detectors and the ability to quarantine threats effectively underline its efficiency, while the human touch in support is a significant draw. While its GUI for ticket resolution and log integration could improve, its high-fidelity alerts and rapid response form an essential part of threat management. Updates to its query language, reporting, and AI integration are areas of potential growth.

What are the key features of Secureworks Taegis Managed XDR/MDR?

Comprehensive Threat Intelligence: Provides in-depth insights into potential threats.
Real-Time Monitoring: Constant vigilance over network and endpoint activities.
Seamless Endpoint Control: Ensures effective management of device operations.
Machine Learning Detectors: Uses AI to enhance threat detection.
Integration Capabilities: Works with platforms like Azure AD and Microsoft 365.

What benefits or ROI should reviews highlight?

Clear Alerting: Reduces noise to present actionable alerts.
Flexible Pricing: Adapts to the budgetary needs of clients.
Human Support: Expertise-driven support enhances user confidence.
Enhanced Visibility: Improved oversight into security events and responses.
Swift Response: Quickly addresses security incidents to minimize risk.

In healthcare, finance, and other industries, Secureworks Taegis Managed XDR/MDR provides essential services like threat detection, vulnerability management, and risk mitigation. It facilitates secure operations by serving as a central hub for network traffic analysis, antivirus scans, and log monitoring, making it indispensable for robust security infrastructure.

Sophos

Sample Customers

Clients across multiple industries, such as energy, financial, retail, healthcare, government, communications, and education use QRadar.

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