Elastic Security vs. IBM Security QRadar SIEM

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Elastic Security
Score 8.4 out of 10
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Elastic Security equips analysts to prevent, detect, and respond to threats. The free and open solution delivers SIEM, endpoint security, threat hunting, and cloud monitoring. The solution encompasses Elastic SIEM, which brings Elasticsearch to SIEM and threat hunting. The Elastic Agent (or Elastic Endpoint Security based on the former Endgame security product acquired by Elastic in late 2019) brings signatureless malware prevention to endpoints, as well as security data collection for…N/A
IBM Security QRadar SIEM
Score 8.9 out of 10
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IBM Security QRadar is security information and event management (SIEM) Software.N/A
Pricing
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Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Product A and Product B
Elastic Security
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Ratings
IBM Security QRadar SIEM
8.5
Ratings
9% above category average
Centralized event and log data collection00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Correlation00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Event and log normalization/management00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Deployment flexibility00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Custom dashboards and workspaces00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Host and network-based intrusion detection00 Ratings9.70 Ratings
Data integration/API management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Behavioral analytics and baselining00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Response orchestration and automation00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Reporting and compliance management00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Incident indexing/searching00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
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User Ratings
Elastic SecurityIBM Security QRadar SIEM
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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8.4
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Likelihood to Renew
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7.3
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Usability
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9.1
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Support Rating
7.0
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8.1
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Ease of integration
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8.1
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
I believe Endgame is well suited to organizations that have their own Cybersecurity department. Its not well suited for organizations that don't have a Cybersecurity department.
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QRadar is very well suited on environments where there are not multiple tenants or domains, we do have success on this kind of scenario. IBM Security QRadar SIEM is less appropriate for environments with multiple tenants, specially when each tenant represent a different End Costumer (such as for MSSP companies), those environments require a high amount of rules and building blocks replications, since each tenant will have its own "BB definitions", servers, rules exception, etc. Also, some information, such as EPS count or EPS dropped are generated by QRadar's own log sources, which takes place on default domain, therefore users associated with different domain can not have access to those logs, even when the information is related to other domain's environment. For example, even if Event Collector 1 is associated to Domain A, the log informing its dropped EPS is generated by System notification, log source that must be associated to Default domain.
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Pros
  • Identify 0-day malware.
  • Provides a few forensic details on endpoints.
  • Very easy to administer.
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  • Enables identification and prioritization of vulnerabilities in IT infrastructure for corrective action.
  • Facilitates security incident investigation and forensic analysis.
  • Provides a real-time view of security events, enabling immediate incident response.
  • Can integrate with external threat intelligence sources to enrich data and improve threat detection.
  • Enables the generation of detailed and customized reports.
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Cons
  • I would love that it provided more memory analysis details.
  • Being able to edit sensor profiles after creating them.
  • I would love it if it provided more automation features.
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  • Need to spend more time configuring the system to properly interpret and normalize different type of data collected from multiple resources.
  • While Rule creation QRadar uses that rules to detect security threats and generate alerts, but to creating and managing rules is bit complex & tedious work to complete.
  • IBM Security QRadar SIEM is excellent in handling large & complex systems that requires in-depth knowledge and extensive training to configure and maintain the system which includes upgrading, optimization of performance & issue troubleshooting.
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Likelihood to Renew
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With the arrival of IBM Security QRadar SIEM at our company, we have a better vision of all the security needs that may arise, it is a very safe software to use that prevents threats from damaging our IT environment, it is impossible to change it for another software.
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Usability
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As a grade I give 8 as QRadar is not easy to learn. It requires some time to master it. It also needs a team of people actively working on the product. Once you learn to use it the software works very well and it is easy to correlate and understand detected threats. It only takes time to learn how to use it well and configure it properly.
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Support Rating
Even though their support is good, I think there are some areas where they need to provide more thorough solutions to issues, some of their solutions are pretty basic and have already been tried.
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Customer support is Good of IBM, While Using IBM QRadar its deployment is to slow and suddenly stop working and crashed we have contacted IBM Support and Rised a Ticket within a few minute we get call back from customer support and Query Resolved by them Fast And Rapid Support of Ibm
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In-Person Training
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The training was very useful and the people who taught us were very knowledgeable. Although the software may initially seem difficult to learn they made things much easier for us.
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Online Training
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The training was very useful and the people who taught us were very knowledgeable. Although the software may initially seem difficult to learn they made things much easier for us.
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Implementation Rating
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Initial patience is required to learn how to use the product, and it takes a dedicated team to use it. One person is not enough, and it's not enough to just set it up and check it once in a while. It has to be used daily and kept under control to be used effectively
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Alternatives Considered
Endgame is based on the MITRE framework which has proven to be a successful framework to identify various attack patterns that attackers use. Also, compared to the others it's easier to administer and manage.
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I would always recommend Splunk over IBM Security QRadar SIEM unless you're trying to save money or only onboarding and normalizing well known data sources. IBM Security QRadar SIEM doesn't seem to handle RBA and complicated, chaining correlation rules very effectively and if I had to write a custom add-on for custom data, I found it easier to do so in Splunk.
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Return on Investment
  • Being able to identify threats we couldn't identify before.
  • Easier management of endpoints.
  • Being able to immediately isolate endpoints remotely that have high severity threats.
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  • Like any cybersecurity product, any money you don't lose on a prevented attack is money that you saved
  • Most of the apps are free and provides great enrichment like User Behaviour Analytics
  • Top quality alerts gives enormous value to the "passive" data that flows into the infrastructure
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ScreenShots

IBM Security QRadar SIEM Screenshots

Screenshot of QRadar SIEM Cloud native- Threat intelligence preview