BluSapphire vs. IBM Q-Radar

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Zero-day attacks, APTs, Ransomware attacks, unknown threats- for every attack known and unknown, this is the solution that can prevent, mitigate, and respond to them all.

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The most cyber-resilient organizations today deploy a complex tool-stack that covers every network, Cloud, and endpoint. You can achieve the same stellar results with BluSapphire Elite.

Get 100% of the outcomes, in days

Gone are the days of deploying your tool stack today and waiting years for results. With BluSapphire Elite, your security operations provide immediate returns after deployment.

Get 100% of the outcomes, in days

Gone are the days of deploying your tool stack today and waiting years for results. With BluSapphire Elite, your security operations provide immediate returns after deployment.

Better, in more ways than one

Explore the features of the BluSapphire solution as they compare with equivalent features in IBM Q-Radar

BluSapphire
IBM Q Radar
Architecture
Open data platform with native threat detection functionalities and agentless architecture. Our Big Data lake enables seamless correlation and effortless log ingestion welcoming third-party solution management, making triage through the BluSapphire platform easy. With our multi-tenant architecture, cross-intelligence sharing becomes effortless. Discover our comprehensive in-house threat detection and response functionality.
Q-radar is a monolithic SIEM architecture that is highly customizable. However, it it requires significant effort to manage and scale. Heavily reliant on additional integrations for advanced detection.
Deployment
Sensor, Log Collector - A simple VM or commodity hardware to ingest network traffic.No Firewall ports to open if outbound communication is open for all.Less than 2% of Network bandwidth consumption. BluSapphire's components do not sit in line hence, no risk of outage.
It can be done on-premise or hybrid with agent-based deployment. It is more complex due to its appliance-based approach.
Detection
The Comprehensive One platform eliminates security operations silos by seamlessly integrating native threat detection components and consolidating third-party telemetry. With effortless triage capabilities, it incorporates Native Threat detection components built on NBAD, UEBA, EDR, Deception.
The platform relies heavily on rules-based UEBA and advanced analytics. Although, it lacks native endpoint detection capabilities, requiring integrations.
Advanced Analytics
The open platform enables seamless data ingestion from any third-party source. BluSapphire's data lake operates on an open schema, ensuring a consistent data structure across different onboarded sources. This common schema facilitates efficient data management and analysis, simplifying the handling of complex data. The horizontally scalable data lake allows unrestricted data ingestion, with no limits commercially on the number of queries or dashboards for analysis and problem-solving purposes.
Q radar is good at correlation-based analytics but lacks advanced machine learning. It requires substantial customization for complex environments.
Response
Response functions are distributed across various components including endpoints, networks, Active Directory (AD), third-party security, and network devices or applications. There are no restrictions when working with Third Party APIs to execute response functions. REST APIs are available to facilitate seamless data exchange with third-party systems.
It integrates with IBM's SOAR but lacks native response functionality. Primarily it requires external integrations for full incident response.
XDR
The Hybrid XDR solution is built from the ground up with native components along with Third Party integrations,  providing a unified platform to detect malicious signals across cloud, endpoints, users, and networks. By significantly reducing false positives, it greatly enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of security operations.
It does not have native XDR but integrates well with third-party solutions.
Threat Hunt
Experience industry-first agent-less hunts directly on hosts. Eliminate the risk of overlooking any artifacts during hunt exercises. Execute hunts guided by the MITRE framework and hypotheses. Create and search for your own indicators/artifacts without limitations. BluSapphire offers meticulously curated threat intelligence from over 110+ sources. You are also free to consume threat intelligence of your choice. Effortlessly conduct hunts on data stored in your data lake.
It is limited to rule-based hunting, and has no real-time behavioral analysis- making it limited for advanced threat hunting.
Remote Forensics
Can fetch remote forensics real time from computer devices while staying completely agentless enabling analysts for analysis and or build assurance.
Lacks native remote forensics; and so relies on integrations.
Managed Detection and Response
Powered by BluHawk team - offers you a dedicated Point of contact and access to professional analyst, threat hunters, Incident response teams.
Lacks native remote forensics; and so relies on integrations.
Unlimited Storage
Offers unlimited hot data storage. In Addition, BluSapphire offers flexibility in storing your data within your AWS S3 / Azure Blurb. Your data, your control at an affordable cost.
It has limited data retention and so requires additional cost for long-term storage.
Contract Flexibility
No Contacting No Contacting anymore - no lock-in. Pay monthly, move on if you do not like.anymore - no lock-in. Pay monthly, move on if you do not like.
It has the option of annual contracts with renewal commitments.
Time to Value
(Deployment + Tune + Ops Timeline)
Deployment closes in <48 hours, tune up & system operational in 3 days.
Deployment and tuning can take months, depending on the complexity.
Interoperability
Open to work with any existing technology deployed within the organisation. With or without integration.
Integrates well with IBM solutions but may face challenges with third-party tools.
TCO
Low, One platform offers you holistic coverage by identification of threat signals across user, network, cloud.
High TCO, especially for large deployments with ongoing customization and maintenance costs.
ROI
High, On Average >145%
ROI is variable, with high upfront and operational costs.
Our cyber-detection capabilities increased drastically. Agentless Quarantine has improved our response times
CTO, Large Investment Firm in NYC
Dramatically improved our SOC visibility and response times, while cutting our costs significantly.
VP – Security, Tier II MSSP

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