Buyers Guides for Cybersecurity

2025 Software Provider and Product Assessment

 Our Cybersecurity Buyers Guide research is designed to provide a comprehensive view of a software provider’s capability to enhance the effectiveness, performance and governance of cybersecurity measures within an enterprise. 

The Buyers Guides for Cybersecurity evaluate providers across four software categories with a unique Buyers Guide and research for each category to help enterprises assess and select software providers.

• The Data Recovery Buyers Guide evaluates 17 providers and products based on a variety of capabilities, including backup management, compliance and data integrity, continuous data protection, data segmentation, GenAI and machine learning (ML), recovery speed and the opportunity to evolve into a managed service at a later time. The guide assesses the following providers: Acronis, Arcserve, AvePoint, AWS, Cohesity, Commvault, Dell, Druva, HPE, IBM, Microsoft, N-able, NinjaOne, OpenText, Quest, Rubrik and Veeam.
  
  
• The Endpoint Detection and Response Buyers Guide evaluates 19 providers and products based on a variety of capabilities, including the use of GenAI and machine learning, automated response, incident forensics, integration with other tools, threat detection, threat hunting and the ability for an enterprise to migrate to an MSP relationship with the product later. The guide assesses the following providers: Acronis, Arctic Wolf, Bitdefender, Broadcom, Check Point, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Cybereason, ESET, Fortinet, ManageEngine, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, Qualys, SentinelOne, Sophos, Trellix, Trend Micro and WithSecure. 
  
  
• The Identity and Access Management Buyers Guide evaluates 20 providers and products based on a variety of capabilities, including access management and governance, the use of GenAI and machine learning (ML), APIs and application connector integration, auditing and reporting, identity verification, MFA, RBAC, self-service functionality, user provisioning and the ability to migrate the enterprise to a managed service provider using the existing IAM product. The guide assesses the following providers: BeyondTrust, Broadcom, CyberArk, Delinea, Entrust, Eviden, Fortinet, Fortra, Google Cloud, IBM, JumpCloud, ManageEngine, Microsoft, Okta, OpenText, Oracle, Ping Identity, RSA, SailPoint and Thales. 
  
  
• The SIEM Buyers Guide evaluates 15 providers and products based on a variety of capabilities including compliance functionality, compliance reporting, dashboard visualization, data privacy, GenAI and ML, incident response, log management, observability, SIEM deployment models, SOAR support, threat detection, threat intelligence communities, user behavior analytics, and the opportunity to evolve use of the SIEM software over time as a managed service. The guide assesses the following providers: Devo Technology, Elastic, Exabeam, Fortinet, Fortra, Google Cloud, ManageEngine, Microsoft, NetWitness, OpenText, Rapid7, Securonix, SolarWinds, Splunk and Sumo Logic. 
  

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