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Citrix Analytics for Security [EOL] vs IBM Security QRadar comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Citrix Analytics for Securi...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM Security QRadar
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
218
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (5th), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (2nd), User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) (2nd), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (12th), Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (4th), Managed Detection and Response (MDR) (11th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (10th)
 

Featured Reviews

Federico_Villanueva - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity Director at Infra-tech
Helped the organization to provide high-security access to applications and performs well
From the point of view of a user, it is a scalable solution. The solution performs well with growth and is easily accessible. There are less than one hundred users because it's part of a SIP company. But in the main group, it has three thousand users. The idea is to grow and provide our service to two thousand users.
HarshBhardiya - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We mainly use Citrix for deploying applications and providing centralized access to our clients."
"Very good scalability."
"The solution is easy to handle."
"The features that I have found most valuable in QRadar are its data enrichment, use case creations, and adding references - those kinds of features are very good. Also QRadar's event filtration and device integration are perfect."
"We are a system integrator and IBM QRadar is one of the security and monitoring products that we implement for our clients."
"The solution is easy to use, manage, and review all incidents."
"Previously, we had to do a lot of debugging when we wanted to change our firewall policy to find out which rule was blocking things, etc. With QRadar, when you integrate the logs of the firewall, you have with two clicks, the info in real-time."
"The scalability is awesome, because QRadar includes other solutions in the same console."
"This product collects all of the system logs and analyzes them to see if there are any security threats, or there have been any attacks."
"It captures and processes large volumes of event data, and scales to support hundreds of thousands of events in one unified database."
"Senses, tracks, and links significant incidents and threats."
 

Cons

"Lacks recording features."
"The remote access features need improvement."
"I believe there are some performance issues with the solution."
"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."
"I would like for them to develop a detection management solution. It does not have a detecting management solution in it, you have to buy it as it is, on top of the extended solution."
"The implementation and configuration are not easy."
"Technical support is good. It's not great, it's good."
"The solution can be improved by lowering the cost and bettering their technical support."
"There should be an extension where we can get the reports. This could be an extension to the dashboard with the Guardian or another product with limited technology, for example IPS. Now, we only have IBM. Basically, it needs more and more integration models."
"I really didn't like QRadar to be honest. The solution just isn't user friendly; it is clunky and the integration capabilities within the product are not that great."
"From a functionality point of view, there are issues sometimes."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is fairly priced. There are no additional costs involved, one only needs to pay the licensing cost."
"IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics is an application framework and you can install many applications without any additional costs."
"It's free of charge."
"IBM Security QRadar is a very expensive tool."
"When it comes to the initial pricing there can be a huge discount from there side and also I think they are open to competing with other products."
"IBM has subscriptions plans that run for one year."
"Only enterprise businesses can afford the tool."
"An X-Force feed is free with QRadar."
"It's not expensive for the resources that it gives you."
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Manager, Enterprise Risk Consulting at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 28, 2015
Qradar vs. ArcSight
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Top Industries

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Outsourcing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Construction Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

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Small Business93
Midsize Enterprise39
Large Enterprise107
 

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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?
I am overall satisfied with the licensing cost for IBM Security QRadar.
 

Also Known As

Citrix Analytics for Performance
IBM QRadar, QRadar SIEM, QRadar UBA, QRadar on Cloud, IBM QRadar Advisor with Watson
 

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Sample Customers

Scripps Health, Sydney University, Element Six, Lindex, SAS
Clients across multiple industries, such as energy, financial, retail, healthcare, government, communications, and education use QRadar.
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