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Published inJun 2023
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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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Offense generation and management

When the rule conditions match, the rule action triggers. It completely depends on the options selected in the rule action section for an offense to be generated.

Important note

If all the conditions match and if the indexed property is null, an offense is not generated. For example, if the indexed property is a destination port but the event that triggers the offense does not have a destination port value (the value is null), then the offense is not generated.

This note is for a specific design element with which QRadar ensures that no offense is generated even if rule conditions are matched.

Another peculiar design feature is offense-chaining. Offenses are chained together to provide analysts with a deeper understanding of the security incident. It binds one or more offenses based on the offense index field. This helps analysts relate multiple offenses just by looking at one chained offense. Offense-chaining saves analysts a lot of time...

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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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