IBM Security QRadar Reviews

I think this is a good product for enterprises because of the performance and out-of-the-box rules and use cases. If they want to reach the maturity level early, they can use these out-of-the-box rules and use cases. That will help them a lot.

IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics is good, but I think the functionality should be much more integrated. You should have easy access to the artifacts if you are doing a particular investigation. It's good, but other team solutions like LogRhythm are actually merging the functionality. So, I think that is something IBM can work on. 

We have been using IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics for about four years.

Stability is good, but the investigation system should be better.

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.

Their technical support is good. I have not faced any issues before, and the technical support is good.

I will recommend this solution to potential users.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics a seven. 

IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics has a dedicated application for user behavior analytics and must be installed separately on an application server. It is valuable if you created the setup for the use cases. It needs additional customization to have a good value. You will have to point the solution to the suitable data sources that will feed the user analytics in a good manner. You will have good user behavior analytics, based on the created use cases.

IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics has easy architecture, has a good portfolio and integration.

The solution could improve by having more out-of-the-box use cases.

I have been using IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics for approximately two years.

IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics is stable.

I have found IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics to be scalable.

We have approximately 15 clients using this solution.

The support is satisfactory.

The implementation was not easy and was not difficult, it was in the middle.

The full implementation can take approximately two to three months.

We have three people that are supporting IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics.

There is an annual license required for this solution.

I rate IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics an eight out of ten.

Find the malicious activity via filter, don't rely on the rules which trigger the offenses and fix the suspicious activities.

Gaining application visibility and anomaly detection helping IT personnel to quickly identify meaningful deviations. For example, QRadar SIEM can detect off-hours or excessive usage of an application or cloud-based service, or network activity patterns that are inconsistent with historical, moving-average profiles and seasonal usage patterns.

Providing real-time visibility for threat detection and prioritization - QRadar SIEM provides contextual and actionable surveillance across the entire IT infrastructure, helping organizations detect and remediate threats often missed by other security solutions. These threats can include inappropriate use of applications; insider fraud; and advanced, “low and slow” threats easily lost in the “noise” of millions of events..

Artificial Intelligence is superb, QRadar correlate the events smartly and remove the same events but need improvements.

One to three years...

No issues.

Very good

Mcafee, switched due to the bad correlation of data.

It was straightforward

Splunk and Logrhythm..

QRadar also supports UBA which is a fantastic feature to detect user's malicious activities.

It is a requirement for all of the banks to have a security solution in Pakistan. That is the reason most of the banks are using it. In the last one and a half years, Pakistani companies are taking security very seriously, so for that reason, they evaluate these solutions. All in all, it's a good solution. 

I would like for them to develop a detection management solution. It does not have a detection management solution in it, you have to buy it as it is, on top of the extended solution. 

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.

The initial setup was straightforward. The deployment time depends on each customer. We have customers who have different infrastructures and their deployments are quite different. If we rack and stack it, around two, three days, maximum a week, but configuration and optimization take up to somewhere between six months and one year.

I would rate it an eight out of ten. 

• Paradigm shift, security intelligence 2.0
• Contextual-based incident management
• Threat-based incident management
• A single management console to handle all the data
• Ease of use
• Existing integration capabilities
• Out-of-the-box reports
• Parser development

It has helped us in the reduction of VPN frauds via the active monitoring of various frauds.

• There is a scope of improvement in the orchestration layer, such as the SecOps from RSA. RSA Security Analytics bundles their offering with their SecOps (a subset of Archer - Risk Governance tool). This gives them a competitive edge.
• The reporting and dashboard capabilities require a bit of improvement in terms of fine tuning and bifurcation for the technical and management reports.

I have used this solution for four years.

There were no stability issues.

I would give technical support a rating of 9/10.

The setup was straightforward and the deployment was easy.

The pricing policy is a bit on the higher side. IBM offers discounts when applicable.

We looked at other solutions such as RSA enVision and HPE ArcSight.

Trust it, test it, and deploy it.

The most valuable feature is the ability to get the logs and analyze them. These logs help us in terms of analyzing and actually using Watson on them. It's a pretty great tool for intelligence. I think it is really a great product.

To be able to get the logs and analyze them has improved the way my organization functions. You can see where the source destination is coming from. You can actually see the data and pause the dashboard. It actually helps you to analyze the data the way you are supposed to. Nobody else is doing that right now.

I don't have any problems with the solution right now. As I play with the tools, then I will actually come up with different ideas.

I was able to help out with IBM Guardium version 10. I was helping out with a couple of developers who actually developed the application itself.

I want to see more integration between QRadar and other applications like BigFix and a couple of other tools and applications out there. There are a lot of applications out there. QRadar security intelligence might be one of the best right now.

There were no stability issues with QRadar. We've had a couple of stability issues with all the applications that I run. I don't want to mention names.

I’ve used technical support, and they were OK. I used to work for IBM.

I was involved in the initial setup. It was straightforward and not complex.

I work as security engineer for the Department of Justice. We test hundreds of applications. I actually see which ones work best for the infrastructure.

I would suggest QRadar. The security intelligence is one of the best right now.

When looking for a vendor, I want to be able to win them. I want them to accept the fact that I’m looking for a product for what I am doing and I have a couple of requirements.

From there, I can actually tell them what they need to do, or what I need to do, in the environment.

It's easy for us to see what's happening in the environment. It's very good to see the logs and the analytic stuff.

We can see the vulnerabilities much easier with the product. You see a popup on the screen. We do not have to look for it. It is pushed to us.

It is very expensive; very expensive.

The solution is very stable.

I think it is scalable.

We have used technical support. They are very good and very nice.

We didn't evaluate any alternatives. We have yearly talks with the IBM consulting team. We look at the trends.

When choosing a vendor, we look for a stable and trustworthy company. I think QRadar is the best solution you can get.

The most valuable features are:

• Auto update: QRadar will download new logs from the database on the supported security device, so that it will automatically normalize the new log format and you will not need to rewrite all your rules/offenses again.
• X-Force/TAXII feed: QRadar can collect different types of security feeds and correlate them in real-time with your logs.

• Search engine: QRadar is like Excel, i.e., you can add rows and filter like your daily office work, without writing any scripts. So level 1 support also can handle this type of jobs.

You will learn something that you don't know on the user/machine behaviour.

The dashboards and reports may need to improve. We need to export the CSV results to create a report by Excel.

I have used this solution for three years.

It will slow down, when there are too many people doing a search at the same time, but that depends on your hardware and design.

I did not encounter any scalability issues.

You may need to allow remote support for them to help you, for troubleshooting the issues.

The setup is complex, i.e., for the first setup. SIEM is not easy so as to enable logs without any performance issues and the deployment advisor is the key for the project.

You only need to worry about the number of events per second and the number of flows per minute. Storage size is not an issue with QRadar.

We did evaluate other options. I think Splunk is the second-best option.

If you have an experienced group of security members, then you may not at all need the advisor for the product. If not, then you will have to find the path to build your team, so as to become more knowledgeable.