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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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Services involved in the integration of an event log

In the previous section, we learned how to ingest event logs. The journey of an event log from being pushed to or pulled by QRadar to it being parsed, and then correlated and stored is called the event pipeline. An event pipeline can be imagined as a constant array of upcoming events in QRadar.

Figure 4.1 – An event pipeline with the service segregation

Figure 4.1 – An event pipeline with the service segregation

The preceding diagram shows how the events from different log sources are integrated into QRadar using different QRadar services.

The different shapes on the left-hand side of Figure 4.1 suggest the different log sources, from where either the events are pushed by the log sources or pulled by QRadar. This depends on whether we use an active protocol or passive protocol. Protocols come under the ecs-ec-ingress service.

As we learned in Chapter 3, license that is required to collect and process the events. This license is the Events per Second...

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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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