Townsend Security, a leading authority in data privacy, announces Alliance LogAgent for IBM QRadar. The solution offers native support and seamlessly integrates with the IBM Security QRadar log collection and SIEM solution, a Gartner Magic Quadrant leader. Known for its rapid deployment, ease of use, and security effectiveness, IBM Security QRadar provides one of the leading security solutions for real-time monitoring and alerting. IBM i customers can achieve significant improvements in IT security when combining Alliance LogAgent for IBM QRadar with an existing or new deployment of QRadar.

Alliance LogAgent for IBM QRadar has been certified as Ready for IBM Security Intelligence and can give confidence to businesses that they are deploying a solution that is compatible with IBM Security QRadar. The solution now fully supports the QRadar Log Event Extended Format (LEEF) and IBM i customers can take advantage of QRadar’s built-in DSM support for Alliance LogAgent for IBM QRadar. This means that IBM i customers can immediately realize the benefits of QRadar’s real-time monitoring, alerting, and reporting solutions without complex configuration tasks.

“IBM i customers have struggled with SIEM deployments due to the complexity of installing, configuring and training the SIEM to recognize IBM i security events. This has been further aggravated by the lack of real-time event collection, which is so important to a good security monitoring implementation,” said Patrick Townsend, Founder and CEO of Townsend Security. “Those days are over. Alliance LogAgent for IBM QRadar collects events in real-time and transmits them to QRadar in the LEEF format that it natively understands. IBM i customers get out-of-the-box compatibility with IBM Security QRadar and start realizing the benefits right away.”

Log collection and active monitoring are on the top of the list of security best practices and are one of the most effective security tools that businesses can deploy. Unfortunately, organizations have struggled with the cost, complexity, and high numbers of false positives and false negatives with many SIEM solutions. IBM Security QRadar gets superior ratings on independent reviews for ease of deployment and ease of use. This means better security protection. With QRadar support now integrated with Alliance LogAgent for IBM QRadar, IBM i customers achieve rapid ROI.