IBM QRadar SIEM Advanced Topics

Course overview

Can you use QRadar SIEM to correlate various events and flow and trigger alerts of suspicious events? Learn to process uncommon QRadar events, work with reference data, custom rules and actions.

QRadar SIEM provides deep visibility into network, user, and application activity. It provides collection, normalization, correlation, and secure storage of events, flows, assets, and vulnerabilities. Suspected attacks and policy breaches are highlighted as offenses.

This 2-day instructor-led course walks you through various advanced topics about QRadar such as custom log sources, reference data collections and custom rules, X-Force data and the Threat Intelligence app, UBA and QRadar Advisor, tuning and custom action scripts. The course also discusses integration with IBM SOAR. Hands-on exercises reinforce the skills learned.

The lab environment for this course uses the IBM QRadar SIEM 7.5 platform.

Who should attend

This course is designed for security administrators and security analysts.

Prerequisites

Students should be knowledgeable about the following topics: • IT infrastructure • IT security fundamentals • Linux • Windows • TCP/IP networking • Syslog • Foundational skills for the IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform (at least the skills that are taught in the IBM QRadar SIEM Foundations - BQ104 course)

Delivery formats

• • Instructor-led online (virtual classroom)
• • Instructor-led on-site at your premises
• • Self-paced online training
• • Private/closed group delivery for corporate teams

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Related and follow-on courses

• BQ105G — IBM QRadar SIEM Foundations (Intermediate)
• BQ310G — QRadar SIEM: Gathering Threat Management Data (v7.5) (Intermediate)
• BQ505G — QRadar EDR: Foundations (Basic)
• BQ510XG — QRadar EDR: Protecting Your Endpoints (Intermediate)