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Building a Next-Gen SOC with IBM QRadar: Accelerate your security operations and detect cyber threats effectively
Author(s): Ashish M Kothekar (Author)
- Publisher: Packt Publishing
- Publication Date: 28 Jun. 2023
- Language: English
- Print length: 198 pages
- ISBN-10: 1801076022
- ISBN-13: 9781801076029
Book Description
Discover how different QRadar components fit together and explore its features and implementations based on your platform and environment
Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
Key Features
- Get to grips with QRadar architecture, components, features, and deployments
- Utilize IBM QRadar SIEM to respond to network threats in real time
- Learn how to integrate AI into threat management by using QRadar with Watson
Book Description
This comprehensive guide to QRadar will help you build an efficient security operations center (SOC) for threat hunting and need-to-know software updates, as well as understand compliance and reporting and how IBM QRadar stores network data in real time.
The book begins with a quick introduction to QRadar components and architecture, teaching you the different ways of deploying QRadar. You’ll grasp the importance of being aware of the major and minor upgrades in software and learn how to scale, upgrade, and maintain QRadar. Once you gain a detailed understanding of QRadar and how its environment is built, the chapters will take you through the features and how they can be tailored to meet specifi c business requirements. You’ll also explore events, flows, and searches with the help of examples. As you advance, you’ll familiarize yourself with predefined QRadar applications and extensions that successfully mine data and find out how to integrate AI in threat management with confidence. Toward the end of this book, you’ll create different types of apps in QRadar, troubleshoot and maintain them, and recognize the current security challenges and address them through QRadar XDR.
By the end of this book, you’ll be able to apply IBM QRadar SOC’s prescriptive practices and leverage its capabilities to build a very efficient SOC in your enterprise.
What you will learn
- Discover how to effectively use QRadar for threat management
- Understand the functionality of different QRadar components
- Find out how QRadar is deployed on bare metal, cloud solutions, and VMs
- Proactively keep up with software upgrades for QRadar
- Understand how to ingest and analyze data and then correlate it in QRadar
- Explore various searches, and learn how to tune and optimize them
- See how to maintain and troubleshoot the QRadar environment with ease
Who this book is for
This book is for security professionals, SOC analysts, security engineers, and any cybersecurity individual looking at enhancing their SOC and SIEM skills and interested in using IBM QRadar to investigate incidents in their environment to provide necessary security analytics to responsible teams. Basic experience with networking tools and knowledge about cybersecurity threats is necessary to grasp the concepts present in this book.
Table of Contents
- QRadar Components
- How QRadar Components Fit Together
- Managing QRadar Deployments
- Integrating Logs and Flows in QRadar
- Leaving No Data Behind
- QRadar Searches
- QRadar Rules and Offenses
- The Insider Threat – Detection and Mitigation
- Integrating AI into Threat Management
- Re-Designing User Experience
- WinCollect – the Agent for Windows
- Troubleshooting QRadar
Editorial Reviews
Review
“IBM QRadar has been the leader in the security market segment for more than a decade. IBM QRadar is an aggregator that encompasses security products, ingests data from them, correlates the data, and uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide insights, alerts, and reports for practitioners and stakeholders. These include analysts, security administrators, government agencies, law enforcement, and executive management. This book gets into the foundational concepts on which QRadar is built, explaining the architecture, services, and different components. It details how QRadar can be used by stakeholders for different purposes, covering QRadar apps, which are customized solutions built by IBM for different security products. It ends with informative crafted chapters on the author’s experience with QRadar and tips for getting the most out of QRadar for your organization’s security. I have known Ashish for over half a decade and closely worked with him, where he has been instrumental in designing different security solutions, including IBM QRadar and IBM Storage products. He has authored many IBM Redpapers in this area. This book provides an end-to-end view and knowledge of QRadar, including insights into its usage to secure your organization. I definitely recommend it for practitioners across industry verticals.”
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Sandeep Patil IBM STSM (IBM Storage CTO Office), IBM Master Inventor, WW Prolific Inventor
About the Author
Ashish has a total experience of more than 15 years working for IBM on various different platforms. He is currently working as a tech evangelist for IBM Security products. He has been instrumental in developing more than 10 IBM certification exams including IBM products like QRadar, Cloud Pak for Security, IBM SiteProtector, IBM XGS etc. He has worked with multiple customers on deploying and then upgrading IBM security products. He has contributed regularly by writing blogs and giving talks on security products. He has published many redpapers on the integration of security products with IBM Storage solutions like the IBM Spectrum scale. These redpapers are now full-fledged solutions that are being sold. He has also cleared two Mandarin language exams and is HSK2 qualified.
