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Offenses

An open offense can be inactive in the Backend

An open offense can be inactive in the Backend if there are no new events that arrived for at least 30 minutes. Despite this fact, the end-user (after opening the GUI) can see only two states (Open or Closed), while in the backend there are three different states. In the backend (including API) you can […]

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Admin Architecture

How to change a forgotten password in QRadar

QRadar has multiple ways to authenticate users. Apart from the default System Authentication based on data kept in the Postgres database, you can configure external Authentication using RADIUS, TACACS, LDAP or SAML methods. In the screenshot above you can also see Active Directory option, which has been recently removed from the allowed methods of authentication […]

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Tutorial

List and export all enabled Log Sources using psql query in QRadar

In order to export a list of all enabled log sources, SIEM administrators can run one of the following commands basd on psql query in QRadar. The commands are available from the Console back end, so using SSH, log in to the QRadar Console as the root user. To enter the command line for the database, […]

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Admin

Deploying changes locally

Many QRadar users and admins hit time out or error issue when they are deploying changes in QRadar to the Managed Hosts. Not all of them know how to troubleshoot this problem. I will describe here a simple solution to this problem when qradar not deploying changes. QRadar has two different approaches to store configuration. […]

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Log Activity Video

DSM Editor (part two)

This is the second part of the article about DSM Editor. Please find the link here to the first part of this article. As mentioned there, DSM Editor can create a new Log Source, based on repeating information in any kind of log. Sample Log Suppose, that you are dealing with logs collected from the […]

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Tutorial

Installing an App Node in QRadar environment

Installing an App Node in QRadar environment is only possible for QRadar 7.3.0 and QRadar 7.3.1. Below this number, in versions 7.2.6 to 7.2.8, you must not off-board apps from the console. Forward this version, since 7.3.2 App Node has been replaced by App Host and became the same component as the other Managed Hosts […]

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Tutorial

Customising QRadar interface

Customising QRadar interface, after issuing version 7.3.0, is rather a simple task. Users, willing to do it, don’t need to have more skills than editing and copying files in Linux. Obviously, don’t do this in production systems. This is not supported. You do this on own risk only. Edit qradar.properties Simple edit the file below, […]

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Admin Architecture

QRadar backup

QRadar backup is one of the most important feature to use by each system administrator. There are two types of backups – configuration backup and data backup. It is highly recommended to do backups on regular basis and by default, QRadar creates a backup nightly but you can reschedule and adjust it to your needs. […]

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Architecture Log Activity

QRadar Log Sources

QRadar Log Sources are displayed in Log Activity tab where each event information is in a form of record from that log source. An event is a record from a device that describes an action on a network or host. SIEM normalizes the varied information found in raw events. QRadar SIEM supports many protocols, to receive raw […]

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Admin

Routing data in QRadar

There are two options for routing data in QRadar: Online: Forwarding takes place during the QRadar event pipeline as part of ECS-EC (event correlation service – event collection) process. It can be described as real-time streaming of data as it is in the event pipeline, the Event Forwarding process that lives in ECS-EC routes the […]