IBM

Course Description:
IBM QRadar SIEM provides deep visibility into network, user, and application activity. It provides collection, normalization, correlation, and secure storage of events, flows, asset profiles, and vulnerabilities. QRadar SIEM classifies suspected attacks and policy violations as offenses.

In this 3-day instructor-led course, you learn how to perform the following tasks:

Describe how QRadar SIEM collects data to detect suspicious activities
Describe the QRadar SIEM component architecture and data flows
Navigate the user interface
Investigate suspected attacks and policy breaches
Search, filter, group, and analyze security data
Investigate the vulnerabilities and services of assets
Use network hierarchies
Locate custom rules and inspect actions and responses of rules
Analyze offenses created by QRadar SIEM
Use index management
Navigate and customize the QRadar SIEM dashboard
Use QRadar SIEM to create customized reports
Use charts and filters
Use AQL for advanced searches
Analyze a real world scenario

Extensive lab exercises are provided to allow students an insight into the routine work of an IT Security Analyst operating the IBM QRadar SIEM platform. The exercises cover the following topics:

Using the QRadar SIEM user interface
Investigating an Offense triggered by events
Investigating the events of an offense
Investigating an offense that is triggered by flows
Using rules
Using the Network Hierarchy
Index and Aggregated Data Management
Using the QRadar SIEM dashboard
Creating QRadar SIEM reports
Using AQL for advanced searches
Analyze a real-world large-scale attack

The lab environment for this course uses the IBM QRadar SIEM 7.3 platform.

Objectives:
After completing this course, you should be able to perform the following tasks:

Describe how QRadar SIEM collects data to detect suspicious activities
Describe the QRadar SIEM component architecture and data flows
Navigate the user interface
Investigate suspected attacks and policy violations
Search, filter, group, and analyze security data
Investigate events and flows
Investigate asset profiles
Describe the purpose of the network hierarchy
Determine how rules test incoming data and create offenses
Use index and aggregated data management
Navigate and customize dashboards and dashboard items
Create customized reports
Use filters
Use AQL for advanced searches
Analyze a real world scenario

Audience:
This course is designed for security analysts, security technical architects, offense managers, network administrators, and system administrators using QRadar SIEM.

Prerequisites:
Before taking this course, make sure that you have the following skills:

IT infrastructure
IT security fundamentals
Linux
Windows
TCP/IP networking
Syslog

Course Description:
IBM® Security QRadar® enables you to minimize the time gap between when a suspicious activity occurs and when you detect it. Attacks and policy violations leave their footprints in log events and network flows of your IT systems. To connect the dots, QRadar SIEM correlates these scattered events and flows into offenses that alert you to suspicious activities. Using the skills taught in this course, you will be able to configure processing of uncommon events, work with reference data, and develop custom rules, custom actions, and custom anomoly detection rules.

The lab environment for this course uses the IBM QRadar SIEM 7.3 platform.

Objectives:
Create custom log sources to utilize events from uncommon sources
Create, maintain, and use reference data collections
Develop and manage custom rules to detect unusual activity in your network
Develop and manage custom action scripts to for automated rule reponse
Develop and manage anomoly detection rules to detect when unusual network traffic patterns occur

Audience:
Security administrators
Security technical architects
Offense managers
Professional services using QRadar SIEM
QRadar SIEM administrators

Prerequisites:
IT infrastructure
IT security fundamentals
Linux
Microsoft Windows
TCP/IP networking
Log files and events
Network flows

You should also have completed the IBM Security QRadar SIEM Foundations course.