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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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So far we have seen that to ingest data into QRadar, we need QRadar software to be installed on the VM or bare-metal servers, to have QRadar instances in the cloud, or to have QRadar appliances. But what if a customer does not want to invest in installing QRadar collector software or does not want to have an event collector? Can we still ingest events into QRadar? And if so, how?

Some customers may not have the bandwidth to procure QRadar boxes or maintain them. In this case, they can install an event collection function on a Linux machine that they already have running. This is not a dedicated event collector but a Linux box, which is installed with free software from IBM and is able to send a limited number of logs to QRadar deployment. The customer definitely needs the QRadar console in this case, but they do not require a separate event collector to collect events.

Some of the very high-security networks do not allow any inbound traffic. In such networks...

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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