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Editor's note: This is a summary of our testing of this product, for a full rundown of how it fared in our testing across SIEM categories, please see our full coverage.
Q1 Labs' QRadar is a well-rounded security information and event management platform that became our "go-to product" for validating most of our findings. It earned this status for two primary reasons. First it offers the most amount of functional flexibility.
And, second it provides the most effective correlation rule set right out of the box. The Q1 Labs' product simply offered the greatest amount of visibility into our environment with the least amount of headache.
Q1 Labs shipped us an appliance version of its QRadar product which is a beefy Intel-based system running its proprietary applications, proprietary data storage technology, and a version of Linux under the hood. The user interface is HTTP/HTML-based, worked fine in both IE and Firefox, and requires no deployment of "fat" clients. Despite our inherent dislike of most Web-based user interfaces, we found QRadar's user interface responsiveness acceptable.
Q1 Labs originally started off in the network security monitoring...