News & Events: What the Experts Say
| Heavy Reading “Q1 Labs has a strong solution, with clear collateral that provides a simple message – a message that isn't bound up with a plethora of products and services that could be confusing to prospects. Indeed, it should be easier to sell one comprehensive appliance that a multitude of integrated or non-integrated products, even though the market becomes much narrower as a result. The company also does well at highlighting its partnerships, which also offer both visibility and credibility to the company.”
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| The Daily Incite “The enterprise buying cycle is always very interesting, just in that after a certain amount of time certain technologies become "acceptable" enough for more conservative companies to buy. Over the past 18 months, we've seen that with IPS. What's funniest is that most customers don't really know why they are buying the products, but it's in the budget - so they buy it. So a couple of years after a new category emerges, the mainstream figures it must work (because it's still around) and they put it in the budget. Seems that next up on the list is NBAD (network based anomaly detection) and as this story shows, database security.”
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| CIO Update "There is an opportunity to secure the network fabric by combining the functions of NetFlow-based behavior modeling, the switch, IPS and firewalls. One result of the proposed secure fabric is that infected machines would be rendered impotent."
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| InfoWorld "QRadar possesses a solid methodology for correlating network data, combining flow, NBAD, vulnerability, and IDS/IPS technologies with a
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| InformationSecurity Hot Pick "Q1 Labs has delivered an innovative product to meet the demand for effective enterprise network security management. QRadar is a powerful package and, after learning the ropes, is easy to use. With diligent use, it will help any enterprise rein in and analyze all of the data from point security devices on the network."
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| Network Computing SIM Product Review "Although all the products required time to learn the correlation techniques, we were most comfortable using QRadar's methods."
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| The Daily Incite "Unless you are new to Incite, you get that I'm not a huge fan of SIM. Looking in the rear view mirror is of limited value. But if you can look at both what's happening now and what has happened and correlate it a bit, then that is interesting. Q1 Labs has added the SIM capability to its anomaly detection stuff over the past 2 years, when they realized that the network anomaly detection (NADS) market was inherently limited. Since I'm a fan of doing and not just reporting, this is a novel approach."
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| Enterprise Management Associates "As one of the pioneers in applying the network technology of flow analysis to the management of security, Q1 Labs has demonstrated that it understands why security convergence is so important, and the value that their technology can add to a clearer understanding of the IT security posture in a real-world context.”
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| GovernmentVAR "We applaud vendors like Q1 Labs for demonstrating best practices and for the leadership roles they have achieved within the IT distribution channel.”
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| Network Computing
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| The Wall Street Journal “Network analysis software from such companies as Q1 Labs Inc. of Waltham, Mass., monitors what goes on inside a company’s computer network, what applications are running on individual computers or who accesses a particular document. They can be especially useful for investigating an internal security breach.”
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