This course has been replaced by BQ203G [IBM QRadar SIEM Advanced Topics]


Overview

IBM Security QRadar SIEM enables you to minimize the time gap between when suspicious activity occurs and when you detect it. There are a variety of administrative tools you can use to manage a QRadar SIEM deployment. This course covers system configuration, data source configuration, and remote networks and services configuration.

Audience

This course is designed for QRadar SIEM administrators and professional services personnel managing QRadar SIEM deployments.

Prerequisites

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

• Basic knowledge of the purpose and use of a security intelligence platform
• Familiarity with the Linux command line interface and PuTTY
• Familiarity with custom rules
• Familiarity with the Ariel database and its purpose in QRadar SIEM
• Students should attend BQ102G, IBM Security QRadar Foundations or be able to navigate and use the QRadar SIEM Console

Objective

Learning objectives

• Install and manage automatic updates to QRadar SIEM assets
• Configure QRadar backup and restore policies
• Leverage QRadar administration tools to aggregate, review, and interpret metrics
• Use network hierarchy objects to manage QRadar SIEM objects and groups
• Manage QRadar hosts and licenses and deploy assets
• Monitor the health of assets in a QRadar deployment
• Configure system settings and asset profiles
• Configure reasons that QRadar administrators use to close offenses
• Create and manage reference sets
• Create the credentials used to perform authenticated scans
• Manage, route, and store event and flow data
• Use domains in QRadar SIEM to act as a filter for events, flows, scanners, assets, rules, offenses, and retention policies
• Configure user accounts including user profiles, authentication, and authorizations
• Manage custom properties for assets, events, and flows
• Manage QRadar log sources
• Manage QRadar flow sources
• Integrate Vulnerability Assessment Scanner results in QRadar SIEM
• Manage groups that monitor Internet networks and services