BQ104G – IBM QRadar SIEM Foundations

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