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Published inJun 2023
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ISBN-139781801076029
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Ashish M Kothekar
Ashish M Kothekar
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Ashish M Kothekar

Ashish has a total experience of more than 15 years working for IBM on various different platforms. He is currently working as tech evangelist for IBM Security products. He has been instrumental in developing more than 10 IBM certification exams including IBM products like QRadar, Cloud Pak for Security, IBM SiteProtector, IBM XGS, etc. He has worked with multiple customers on deploying and then upgrading IBM security products. He has contributed regularly by writing blogs and giving talks on security products. He has published many redpapers on the integration of security products with IBM Storage solutions like IBM Spectrum scale. These redpapers are now full-fledged solutions that are being sold. He has also cleared two Mandarin language exams and is HSK2 qualified.
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Exploring protocols and DSMs

There are two factors we need to consider when integrating event data in QRadar:

  • How to transfer data from end devices to QRadar
  • How to parse or make sense of data that is received

Let’s look at each of these considerations in detail.

How to transfer data from applications to QRadar

Different applications can be installed and run on different platforms or operating systems. For example, while some applications could be on a Windows machine on a bare-metal server, other applications could be running on the AWS cloud or some security appliance, such as a Ciscofirewall deployed in your organization.

All these endpoints are known as log sources, as we receive log data from them. As the log sources are on different platforms, they might also use different technologies and ways to log the data. For example, the AWS log sources can use something such as a S3 bucket, while a Linux security log would be saved on the same Linux...

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Ashish M Kothekar

Ashish has a total experience of more than 15 years working for IBM on various different platforms. He is currently working as tech evangelist for IBM Security products. He has been instrumental in developing more than 10 IBM certification exams including IBM products like QRadar, Cloud Pak for Security, IBM SiteProtector, IBM XGS, etc. He has worked with multiple customers on deploying and then upgrading IBM security products. He has contributed regularly by writing blogs and giving talks on security products. He has published many redpapers on the integration of security products with IBM Storage solutions like IBM Spectrum scale. These redpapers are now full-fledged solutions that are being sold. He has also cleared two Mandarin language exams and is HSK2 qualified.
Read more about Ashish M Kothekar