IBM Security QRadar and Change Auditor for Windows File Servers compete in the security and auditing space. IBM Security QRadar maintains a feature richness edge with its wide-ranging threat detection, while Change Auditor offers tailored solutions for file management needs.
Features: IBM Security QRadar provides robust threat detection, advanced log management, and real-time alerts. Change Auditor for Windows File Servers emphasizes detailed auditing, forensic analysis, and change monitoring. IBM focuses on broad security management, whereas Change Auditor specializes in file server auditing.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Change Auditor for Windows File Servers emphasizes straightforward deployment and easy integration within Windows server environments, supported by responsive customer service. IBM Security QRadar, offering powerful analytics, requires a more complex deployment due to its expansive enterprise reach.
Pricing and ROI: IBM Security QRadar involves higher setup costs corresponding to its extensive capabilities but offers potentially high ROI through comprehensive security management. Change Auditor for Windows File Servers provides a cost-effective solution with specialized features, yielding strong ROI for file server auditing needs.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| IBM Security QRadar | 3.8% |
| Change Auditor for Windows File Servers | 0.2% |
| Other | 96.0% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 89 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 36 |
| Large Enterprise | 102 |
Change Auditor for Windows File Servers helps you control and audit changes to Microsoft Windows file servers efficiently and cost-effectively. It proactively tracks, audits, reports and alerts on vital changes in real time and without the overhead of native auditing.
You will instantly know the “who, what, when, where and originating workstation” details, and get the original and current values for fast troubleshooting. You can then automatically generate intelligent, in-depth forensics for auditors and management, reducing the risks associated with day-to-day modifications and ensuring confidence at your next audit.
IBM Security QRadar (recently acquired by Palo Alto Networks) is a security and analytics platform designed to defend against threats and scale security operations. This is done through integrated visibility, investigation, detection, and response. QRadar empowers security groups with actionable insights into high-priority threats by providing visibility into enterprise security data. Through centralized visibility, security teams and analysts can determine their security stance, which areas pose a potential threat, and which areas are critical. This will help streamline workflows by eliminating the need to pivot between tools.
IBM Security QRadar is built to address a wide range of security issues and can be easily scaled with minimal customization effort required. As data is ingested, QRadar administers automated, real-time security intelligence to swiftly and precisely discover and prioritize threats. The platform will issue alerts with actionable, rich context into developing threats. Security teams and analysts can then rapidly respond to minimize the attackers' strike. The solution will provide a complete view of activity in both cloud-based and on-premise environments as a large amount of data is ingested throughout the enterprise. Additionally, QRadar’s anomaly detection intelligence enables security teams to identify any user behavior changes that could be indicators of potential threats.
IBM QRadar Log Manager
To better help organizations protect themselves against potential security threats, attacks, and breaches, IBM QRadar Log Manager gathers, analyzes, preserves, and reports on security log events using QRadar Sense Analytics. All operating systems and applications, servers, devices, and applications are converted into searchable and actionable intelligent data. QRadar Log Manager then helps organizations meet compliance reporting and monitoring requirements, which can be further upgraded to QRadar SIEM for a more superior level of threat protection.
Some of QRadar Log Manager’s key features include:
Reviews from Real Users
IBM Security QRadar is a solution of choice among users because it provides a complete solution for security teams by integrating network analysis, log management, user behavior analytics, threat intelligence, and AI-powered investigations into a single solution. Users particularly like having a single window into their network and its ability to be used for larger enterprises.
Simon T., a cyber security services operations manager at an aerospace/defense firm, notes, "The most valuable thing about QRadar is that you have a single window into your network, SIEM, network flows, and risk management of your assets. If you use Splunk, for instance, then you still need a full packet capture solution, whereas the full packet capture solution is integrated within QRadar. Its application ecosystem makes it very powerful in terms of doing analysis."
A management executive at a security firm says, "What we like about QRadar and the models that IBM has, is it can go from a small-to-medium enterprise to a larger organization, and it gives you the same value."
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