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

Topics:

Unit 1: Introduction to IBM QRadar
Unit 2: IBM QRadar SIEM component architecture and data flows
Unit 3: Using the QRadar SIEM User Interface
Unit 4: Investigating an Offense Triggered by Events
Unit 5: Investigating the Events of an Offense
Unit 6: Using Asset Profiles to Investigate Offenses
Unit 7: Investigating an Offense Triggered by Flows
Unit 8: Using Rules
Unit 9: Using the Network Hierarchy
Unit 10: Index and Aggregated Data Management
Unit 11: Using the QRadar SIEM Dashboard
Unit 12: Creating Reports
Unit 13: Using Filters
Unit 14: Using the Ariel Query Language (AQL) for Advanced Searches
Unit 15: Analyzing a Real-World Large-Scale Attack
Appendix A: A real-world scenario introduction to IBM QRadar SIEM
Appendix B: IBM QRadar architecture

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.

Topics:

Module 1: Creating log source types

Module 2: Leveraging reference data collections

Module 3: Developing custom rules

Module 4: Creating Custom Action Scripts

Module 5: Developing Anomaly Detection Rules

Course Description:

In this course, you learn about the IBM Security® QRadar® SOAR architecture, and how to position the product in your company’s security architecture design. You gain hands-on experience with the SOAR interface, by investigating and managing cases and users with the SOAR Breach Response module, playbooks, and email integration.

Objectives

In this course, you learn about the following topics:
QRadar SOAR architectural patterns
Install the product, and configure license and access
Review the SOAR Console
Manage cases
Utilize the concept of artifacts
Utilize case management capabilities
Integrate email system for users and case management
Focus on the Breach Response module
Gain hands-on experience with the SOAR platform
Design playbooks
Integrate IBM and third-party solutions with SOAR

Audience

Security operations center (SOC) Administrator
SOC Analyst
Security Analyst
Incident Responder
Managed Service Security Provider (MSSP)

Topics

Getting started

Describe architectural patterns
Install the product and configure license and access
Review the SOAR Console
Manage cases and use Breach Response add-on
Utilize the concept of artifacts

Case management and email integration

Utilize case management capabilities
Integrate email system for users and case management
Focus on the Breach Response module

Playbooks and integrations

Gain hands-on experience with the SOAR platform
Design playbooks
Integrate IBM and third-party solutions with SOAR