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Building a Next-Gen SOC with IBM QRadar
Building a Next-Gen SOC with IBM QRadar

Building a Next-Gen SOC with IBM QRadar: Accelerate your security operations and detect cyber threats effectively

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Building a Next-Gen SOC with IBM QRadar

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We live in a digital age in which the paradigms of security have changed. In the past, wars were fought on battlefields. Now, digital space is where the security of a nation-state, an enterprise, or an individual is threatened. Gartner predicts that by 2025, cyber attackers will use weaponized technology to harm or kill humans. Earlier, cyberattacks were restricted to things such as denial of services, information theft, and ransomware.

These cyberattacks have a heavy financial toll (billions of dollars), cause disruption in production, cause intellectual property to be stolen, and eventually, the brand reputation is tarnished. This is a never-ending battle in this digital age. Security vendors have come up with hundreds of security products and solutions to counter these cyberattacks. IBM has been at the forefront and is leading the security space with top-of-the-line products and solutions.

To understand the impact of a cyberattack, we just have to look a few years back at what happened with Ashley Madison. Ashley Madison was a dating app for those who were married, and the slogan they used to advertise then was “Life is short. Have an affair.” Not surprisingly, the service had 37 million subscribers.

And then the unthinkable happened for the subscribers of the site. Ashley Madison used the weakest password encryption algorithm, and it was easily hacked. A hacker group called the Impact Group gave Ashley Madison 30 days to pay a ransom. As Ashley Madison did not pay, on the 30th day, they released about 60 GB of data with the names, email addresses, credit card numbers, and other details of the subscribers on the dark net. Soon, the media and the crooks started looking for famous personalities to hold them for ransom. The hack soon became public knowledge, leading to a large number of breakups, divorces, and even suicides. The financial implications of such breaches are unaccountable. The site and the brand of Ashley Madison were damaged permanently.

The point that needs to be understood from this scenario is that security breaches can cost lives, and hence any organization (whether it be a dating website, a bank, or a telecom company) needs to be on top of its game when it comes to security.

IBM QRadar is a solution suite that provides enhanced threat intelligence and insights into cyberattacks. These insights help organizations automate responses to threats and also help in devising new strategies to counter cyberattacks. An organization uses hundreds of enterprise solutions and security products from different vendors, such as firewalls, Endpoint Detection Response (EDR), Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and so on. IBM QRadar seamlessly integrates with all these products, consumes all the security data from them, and provides security alerts or insights that are actionable.

In this book, we will learn more about how to build your next-generation Security Operations Center (SOC) using the IBM QRadar solution suite. To understand IBM QRadar and how it functions, it is important to understand the different components. We call all these different QRadar components managed hosts (apart from the Console).

In this chapter, we will discuss various QRadar services for each component, which should be a good starting point to design the architecture for your SOC. As per different requirements, different components can be used in the deployment. Various aspects such as deployment types, scaling, upgrades, and licensing are discussed in corresponding chapters. In this chapter, however, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Understanding the QRadar Console
  • Exploring event data
  • Exploring flow data
  • Getting to know the Data Node
  • Investigating QRadar components
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  • 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

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.

Who is this book 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.

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
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Table of Contents

17 Chapters
Part 1: Understanding Different QRadar Components and Architecture Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 1: QRadar Components Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 2: How QRadar Components Fit Together Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 3: Managing QRadar Deployments Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 2: QRadar Features and Deployment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 4: Integrating Logs and Flows in QRadar Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 5: Leaving No Data Behind Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 6: QRadar Searches Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 7: QRadar Rules and Offenses Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 3: Understanding QRadar Apps, Extensions, and Their Deployment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 8: The Insider Threat – Detection and Mitigation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 9: Integrating AI into Threat Management Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 10: Re-Designing User Experience Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 11: WinCollect – the Agent for Windows Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 12: Troubleshooting QRadar Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Index Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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IBM QRadar acts as an aggregator, integrating data from various security products, correlating it, and using artificial intelligence and machine learning to generate valuable insights, alerts, and reports for various stakeholders. These stakeholders range from analysts and security administrators to government agencies, law enforcement, and executive management.As a professional in the training and security industry who is new to this software, the author provides clear and concise guidance on its features. By the end of the book, you'll have a solid understanding of how to make the most of this tool.This book is a perfect guide to the capabilities of QRadar. It breaks down the features and processes for the proper deployment of QRadar and how to leverage it to get the best results. It delves into the fundamental principles upon which QRadar is constructed, elucidating its architecture, services, and diverse components. It provides a comprehensive understanding of how different stakeholders can leverage QRadar, including its custom-built solutions known as QRadar apps, developed by IBM for various security products.The book concludes with the author's personal experience with QRadar, offering valuable tips for maximizing QRadar's potential within your organization's security framework.Overall, this book presents a complete perspective on QRadar, shedding light on its use in securing your organization.
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Dwayne Natwick Jun 29, 2023
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Are you wondering where to start when creating a security operations center with IBM QRadar? Packt Publishing's Building a Next-Gen SOC with IBM QRadar by Ashish Kothekar provides end to end guidance on setup and use of QRadar. All of the tools and components are provided with easy to follow explanations and processes. This is the book for anyone that is using QRadar. And if you want to try QRadar, Ashish explains how to obtain the free community version.
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Austin Gettel Sep 14, 2023
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This book claims that it is for Security Analysts, System Admins, Security Architects, and executives alike, and it absolutely is. This resource needs to be read by everyone in Cybersecurity that works with QRadar or wants to learn more about the tool. The executive will learn all about the licensing structure and the requirements to scale to fit their enterprise's needs. All while giving the details needed for the Security Architect and System Admin to implement. But this book should not be over looked by analysts either, as they can get amazing understanding of the different components. Analysts and Executives will both gain invaluable insight in the different apps that can be implemented to increase the security of the enterprise, and make the life of the Security Analyst's so much better!I've worked with QRadar for over a year now, and I always would come away with more questions than answers after talking to the Security Engineer. They had so much knowledge of QRadar I thought I would never be able to get to their level. After reading this book and learning about the components of QRadar, I shocked my engineer coworkers at our last meeting with how much I learned. I was talking to them on a whole new level, even making suggestions for improvements.I really have to recommend this book for students and anyone transitioning into Cybersecurity, Just what you'll learn about one of the most used SIEM's in the industry would make it worth the price tag. What really makes this invaluable is the step by step instructions to download and install QRadar in your own homelab. This experience will get you so much further than in interviews with a hiring manager than any college degree or certification will ever do!
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esgar jimenez Jul 03, 2023
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This book is a perfect guide to the capabilities of QRadar. It breaks down the features and processes for thebproper deployment of QRadar and how to leverage it to get the best results. As a cybersecurity professional the importance of threat hunting is immeasurable. If you want to enhance yoyr understanding of QRadar and better your companies security posture this book is the way to go to improve your SOC.
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Brandon Lachterman Jul 05, 2023
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As a security professional that had never gotten to touch this software before, the author truly takes you through what you need to know in a simple but effective manor, and youre left with a good understanding of how you can utilize this amazing software.
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