IBM Security QRadar SOAR vs. Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR

IBM Security QRadar SOAR is versatile. All the major players in SOAR field require the administrator to have coding experience but with IBM it is different. IBM's solution is a full-fledged automation solution, and not some threat-based or limited one. Meaning whatever comes to your mind, if you can write the code, you can do it. This goes from daily tasks from SOC to daily tasks of your network or security administrator or any other administrator. You can manage your ITSM solution if you want to, IBM is a playground and there is much to discover in its capabilities. If you do not have the knowledge or if you want a SOC/Threat Based SOAR solution, meaning you want automation but you want it to be limited to an area and out-of-box, you may choose other alternatives.

Incentivized

XSOAR is well suited for phishing detection and response. Phishing alerts are as much of a
problem today as they were decades ago. This is because: ●Attackers Can leverage automation to launch high-quantity phishing attacks with the click
of a button.
●Spear Phishing attacks are sophisticated and sometimes indistinguishable from real
emails, resulting in compromise through human error.
●Security Teams aren’t able to follow set processes while responding to phishing alerts.
They must coordinate across email inboxes, threat intel, NGFW, ticketing, and
other tools. Each tool has different consoles, data conventions, and contexts,
making it difficult for security teams to fill in the gaps while minimizing
errors. XSOAR is less suited for analyzing traffic.

Incentivized

• QRadar's ability to collect, analyze and normalize vast amount of security data from various sources is remarkable.
• QRadar allows us to define and automate incident response playbooks which have been amazing for streamlining the response to security incidents.
• It offers and extensive library of pre-built connectors and support for common security standards facilitating seamless integration with a wide range of security tools.

Incentivized

• Automation with immediate security responses.
• Comprehensive phishing protection and increased email protection.
• Analysis and reporting feature.
• Intuitive and easy-to-view panels.
• Alerts by email and sms of incidents for the administration.
• Centralized monitoring.

Incentivized

• You still have to generate reports manually. Reports are very limited and practically not useful.
• The solution should not be SOAR class. Automations usually don't work. It's apparent that it's not designed for that.
• Lack of flexibility.
• Practically no support. The reported integration problems have not been resolved.

Incentivized

• The XSOAR bot creates a lot of noise on the summary page of any XSOAR incident. Although the filter is available to reduce the view, by default this should not be visible cluttering the whole scenario.
• The interface has too much data on a single pane. I would love to have many buttons to just click and do stuff.
• Also, I would love to have search areas more interactive and easier to navigate.

It is beneficial to have a program that can run independently and be used without the supervision of a devoted employee

Incentivized

It has proven to be far to valuable and effective to consider getting rid of it. Until something better comes along, this is staying in our product stack.

Incentivized

It is very easy to navigate and run the parts that we have needed

Incentivized

I have never had to contact support

Incentivized

It was much easier than we all anticipated.

Incentivized

Overall, IBM Security QRadar SOAR offered the same set of functionality that was needed by the organization as offered by Splunk SOAR, but the former is less expensive and solves all the purpose within budget. In addition, integration with other IBM products was easier and made implementation of a SOAR solution much faster.

Incentivized

The quantity of integrations with security solutions is highest in Palo Alto Solution. The capacity to identify anomalous events is much better in Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR. The flexibility of increased storage area is better as well. The dashboard is very intuitive about showing the most important incidents and how to resolve them.

Incentivized

• It provides comprehensive MTTD and MTTR metrics and we are aware of how secure our systems are at any given moment.
• We use linux 7.7, therefore the integrations are smooth.
• We've been able run our online shops securely for so long.

Incentivized

• Demisto has Eased malware analysis and threat hunting
• With Demisto, it is simple to create playbooks and scripts
• This is helped automate policy configurations on our PA firewalls through Panorama

Incentivized