Splunk vs. IBM QRadar

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Security teams using QRadar SIEM are unable to quickly and easily add and update data sources. This results in data silos and blind spots in the security operations center (SOC) and makes it difficult to have full visibility.

Get unmatched, comprehensive visibility by seamlessly ingesting, normalizing, and analyzing data from any source —- at scale. You have the flexibility to selectively ingest crucial data, including at the edge, and benefit from cost-effective storage.

IBM QRadar falls short on collaboration capabilities to quickly detect, investigate and respond to threats. This makes it difficult to have email or identity specialists work with the primary analyst to reduce Mean Time To Respond (MTTR).

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Industry analysts note that IBM QRadar SIEM is not compatible with many of the leading third-party SOAR and NDR solutions. QRadar’s 600 third-party integrations pale in comparison to over 2,800 with Splunk.

We get so much value from Splunk. It maximizes the insights we gain from analyzing detection use cases, rather than wasting time creating rules or struggling with a tool that’s too complicated.

Romaric Ducloux, SOC Analyst, Carrefour

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Splunk vs IBM QRadar

	Splunk	IBM QRadar
Ecosystem and Integrations	Splunk’s vibrant user community empowers innovation backed by a vast ecosystem of 2,200+ partners and 2,800+ apps on Splunkbase to extend your Splunk investment.	IBM has limited compatibility with only 600 third-party integrations for QRadar SIEM and SOAR.
Data Optimization	Optimize your data sources for best use in the Splunk platform. Search data where it lives and only ingest into Splunk when needed for key tasks such as normalization, enrichment and data availability and retention. With Splunk Enterprise Security, you have the flexibility to store and access your data —even at the edge —and the choice to ingest key data critical to your security use cases. This ensures the most cost-effective data optimization strategy.	QRadar SIEM has limited capabilities to help you optimize your data. Because it still relies on a schema on ingestion, it is challenged by data outside the IBM ecosystem. This approach requires mapping to parse security log data properly, resulting in hidden costs for custom code development, overages to search and query logs and difficulty automating log parsing.
Proactively Address Risk	Splunk Enterprise Security risk-based alerting (RBA) enhances prioritizations by attributing risk to users and systems, mapping alerts to cybersecurity frameworks and triggering alerts when risks exceed thresholds. This reduces alert fatigue, keeping efforts focused on detecting high-fidelity threats to proactively address risk.	QRadar SIEM lacks sophisticated risk-based alerting, and falls short on capabilities that modern SOC teams need to quickly detect, investigate and respond to threats.
Customer Support	Splunk delivers leading-edge innovation and dedicated customer support. No other SIEM vendor can rival the commitment and loyalty exhibited by security practitioners in the Splunk global user community.	IBM QRadar SIEM customers that have switched to Splunk Enterprise Security have reported that declining support quality was a primary reason. According to IDC, “Customer service is not always an area of focus at IBM.”
Innovation	Splunk has advanced SIEM and security analytics by staying at the forefront of innovation in SecOps, helping thousands of customers outpace adversaries. Splunk unifies threat detection, investigation and response (TDIR) workflows through integrated, industry-leading products such as Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk SOAR, Splunk User Behavior Analytics and Splunk Attack Analyzer, addressing a broad spectrum of SecOps use cases. And we continue to rapidly innovate.	IBM QRadar’s pace of SIEM innovation has slowed, according to industry analysts.This makes it increasingly difficult for the modern SOC to solve evolving security needs. IBM has a diversified focus across hybrid cloud, data and AI, automation, security, semiconductors and quantum computing, with security being only one part of its extensive portfolio. This diffusion of focus explains why QRadar's SIEM improvements have been incremental and could increasingly become a sore spot for QRadar SIEM customers.