In "Building a Next-Gen SOC with IBM QRadar", you'll learn how to utilize IBM QRadar to create an efficient Security Operations Center (SOC). The book covers deploying QRadar in various environments, understanding its architecture, and leveraging its powerful features to detect and respond to real-time threats with confidence, ultimately enabling advanced security practices. What this Book will help me do Understand and deploy IBM QRadar in different environments, including on-premises and cloud. Leverage QRadar's features to analyze network traffic, detect threats, and enhance security monitoring. Effectively use QRadar rules and searches to identify, correlate, and respond to security events. Integrate AI technologies with QRadar to automate and improve threat management processes. Maintain, troubleshoot, and scale the QRadar environment to meet evolving security needs. Author(s) Ashish Kothekar is an experienced cybersecurity specialist with a deep understanding of IBM QRadar and SOC operations. He has dedicated his career to helping organizations implement effective security practices. Through his accessible writing and detailed examples, he aims to empower security professionals to maximize their use of QRadar. Who is it for? This book is perfect for SOC analysts, security engineers, and cybersecurity enthusiasts who want to enhance their security skills. Readers should have a basic knowledge of networking and cybersecurity principles. If you're looking to deepen your understanding of IBM QRadar and build a next-gen SOC, this book is for you.

Having appropriate storage for hosting business-critical data and advanced Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) software for deep inspection, detection, and prioritization of threats has become a necessity for any business. This IBM® Redpaper publication explains how the storage features of IBM Spectrum® Scale, when combined with the log analysis, deep inspection, and detection of threats that are provided by IBM QRadar®, help reduce the impact of incidents on business data. Such integration provides an excellent platform for hosting unstructured business data that is subject to regulatory compliance requirements. This paper describes how IBM Spectrum Scale File Audit Logging can be integrated with IBM QRadar. Using IBM QRadar, an administrator can monitor, inspect, detect, and derive insights for identifying potential threats to the data that is stored on IBM Spectrum Scale. When the threats are identified, you can quickly act on them to mitigate or reduce the impact of incidents. We further demonstrate how the threat detection by IBM QRadar can proactively trigger data snapshots or cyber resiliency workflow in IBM Spectrum Scale to protect the data during threat. This third edition has added the section "Ransomware threat detection", where we describe a ransomware attack scenario within an environment to leverage IBM Spectrum Scale File Audit logs integration with IBM QRadar. This paper is intended for chief technology officers, solution engineers, security architects, and systems administrators. This paper assumes a basic understanding of IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM QRadar and their administration.

Having appropriate storage for hosting business-critical data and advanced Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) software for deep inspection, detection, and prioritization of threats has become a necessity for any business. This IBM® Redpaper publication explains how the storage features of IBM Spectrum® Scale, when combined with the log analysis, deep inspection, and detection of threats that are provided by IBM QRadar®, help reduce the impact of incidents on business data. Such integration provides an excellent platform for hosting unstructured business data that is subject to regulatory compliance requirements. This paper describes how IBM Spectrum Scale File Audit Logging can be integrated with IBM QRadar. Using IBM QRadar, an administrator can monitor, inspect, detect, and derive insights for identifying potential threats to the data that is stored on IBM Spectrum Scale. When the threats are identified, you can quickly act on them to mitigate or reduce the impact of incidents. We further demonstrate how the threat detection by IBM QRadar can proactively trigger data snapshots or cyber resiliency workflow in IBM Spectrum Scale to protect the data during threat. This paper is intended for chief technology officers, solution engineers, security architects, and systems administrators.