Exabeam Fusion vs. IBM X-Force Exchange

As a SIEM tool for investigations, Exabeam is the best in class. The AI assigns numeric values to observed logs them presents high scores to the analyst in a simple dashboard. We can see what is a real threat and ignore so many false positives. Exabeam is the best SIEM was used from an alert fatigue perspective. The simple interface allows other teams not just InfoSec to utilize the tool; helpdesk for asset diagnoses, HR for staffing questions, etc.

Incentivized

IBM X-Force is well suited for organizations with medium to large SOC's and run IBM Qradar as their SIEM.

Incentivized

• Fast search times, unlike other competing solutions.
• The ability for engineers to obtain access to the command line interface for troubleshooting, at least for on-premise deployments.
• License is suitable for organisations with lots of logs to ingest.
• Hardware required for on premise deployments is well supported.

Incentivized

• Ready made security research on threats.
• Security Intel
• Integrate threat intel feeds with SIEMs.

Incentivized

• More and better drop-down menus, some items in threat hunter require you know subsets.
• Less dashboards, combine AA and DL without having separate logins.
• More complete playbooks are already built out. You have the structure set up for templates like malware and phishing, go further and completely build them out from start to finish, most companies would just use them and not personalize their configurations.
• Quarterly health checkup diagnostics of systems sent out to users.

Incentivized

• Pruning of IOC to reduce false positives.
• Add more flexibility to integration on SIEMs to allow users to compare UserAgents, Compromised users/domains like HIBP.
• Only watch vulnerabilities for selected vendors.

Incentivized

Exabeam is very good at processing lots of logs without excessive licensing costs. It has a professional support team that's very quick to resolve any issues and provides custom parsers quickly and enables our analysts to search vast data sets without having to wait long for results to be returned. The product is getting more mature with new features every major release.

Incentivized

Exabeam Fusion has so many diffferent out reach meetings, webinars, community virtual coffees, and events that you can always stay abreast of what if happening and get new ideas for use cases. Their support actually answers their phones and can respond in chat instantly. With our cloud deployment Exabeam support teams can instantly see our systems and help us.

Incentivized

IBM X-force is community-based and crowd strike is not. Community-based will always be best-effort quality.

Incentivized

• Reduced time to triage alerts.
• Reduced number of alerts which need escalation to senior tiers.
• The ability for analysts to quickly run playbooks for additional information and enrichment.
• Ability to retain data for longer periods for forensics purposes.
• Improved search performance compared with other SIEM solutions.

Incentivized

• Threat Intel - Low Confidence IOC - Overhead.
• Lack of integration with IBM Qradar+Vulnerability via X-Force.

Incentivized