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QLean for IBM Security www.scnsoft.com QRadar SIEM: Admin Guide SCIENCESOFT QLEAN APP SUITE © 2021 ScienceSoft™ | Page 1 from 27
QLEAN™ App Suite Table of Contents QLEAN for Advanced QRadar Assessment ...................................................................... 3 QSM Session Manager .................................................................................................... 5 QMEA Microsoft Exchange Audit .................................................................................... 7 QWAD WinCollect Assisted Deployment ......................................................................... 8 QIN Incident Notifier.................................................................................................... 11 QDLA Dynamic License Allocator .................................................................................. 14 QDATA LDAP Data Enrichment ..................................................................................... 15 QVTI VirusTotal Integration for Hash Checking ........................................................... 16 QTOR Darknet Monitoring ............................................................................................ 17 QMLA Missing Logs Alert .............................................................................................. 18 QLSI Log Source Inventory .......................................................................................... 19 QSSA Slow Search Alert ................................................................................................ 20 QOR Offense Reporter .................................................................................................. 21 QLED Log Source EPS Details ....................................................................................... 22 QEFC Exclude From Correlation .................................................................................... 23 QFSO Find Similar Offenses .......................................................................................... 24 QDGA DGA Analyzer ..................................................................................................... 25 MITRE Windows Integration App ................................................................................. 26 MITRE Linux Integration App ....................................................................................... 27 © 2021 ScienceSoft™ | Page 2 from 27
QLEAN™ App Suite QLEAN for advanced QRadar health assessment QLEAN (previously known as HCF or Health Check Framework) is the most advanced app for QRadar fine- tuning and health check. QLEAN makes QRadar maintenance easy and transparent by optimizing and automating routine SOC processes and a wide range of advanced fine-tuning and health check procedures that can free up to 30% QRadar admin time. QLEAN Features: • Over 50 advanced novel performance and behavioral metrics including Data Quality, Offense Analysis, Raw EPS and FPI timeline, Rules Performance, SOC KPIs, Fine Tuning, and many others; • An instant complete snapshot of the system state and data quality with a timeline that makes it easy to investigate security threats & top offenses; • Saving on maintenance budget and effort by automating QRadar management, administration, and deployment assessment routines enabling a security team to focus on the most important tasks; • Helps improve log data coverage; • Helps improve the efficiency of SIEM license use and data quality; • A single-component plug & play architecture; • Advanced reports delivered via email; • Significantly lower QRadar maintenance costs and improved ROI; • Higher client/operator satisfaction; • The user base includes major banks, MSSPs, Fortune 500 companies, and government organizations. © 2021 ScienceSoft™ | Page 3 from 27
QLEAN™ App Suite Useful Links: QLEAN latest version along with all supporting documents: www.qlean.io QLEAN IBM Training: https://www.securitylearningacademy.com/course/view.php?id=5809 QLEAN interactive demo: www.scnsoft.com/services/security/siem/qlean/demo QLEAN case study by IBM: www.ibm.com/case-studies/unibank Unique features XLS/JSON reporting, scheduled mode, advanced innovative metrics such as Data Quality independent of the QRadar API version. License QLEAN is a commercial application by ScienceSoft with a limited number of metrics available for free. QLEAN license is required in case users want to get full reports. QLEAN on IBM App Exchange https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/hub/extension/7b76f487c8e370a3749d9264cd5998d9 © 2021 ScienceSoft™ | Page 4 from 27
QLEAN™ App Suite QSM Session Manager QSM or QRadar Session Manager makes it easy to manage user sessions and investigate security events using session information even if the user name is not available in log messages e.g.: • Firewall activity • IDS/IPS activity • Web Servers activity • Operating Systems logs missing username • Database and business application queries etc. Session information for a specific user or IP address can be accessed via the right-click menu in the Log Activity tab, or through the QSM tab. QSM is essential in environments with lots of DHCP endpoints and users, and other scenarios. Detailed description QSM tracks user sessions starting from initial authentication until timeout or new authentication from the same IP address, and stores session information in a special log source within QRadar. Runtime (active) session information is stored in memory so when the session is closed for any reason, it will be tracked in the QRadar log source. It allows users to apply native QRadar retention settings to QSM data and review session information directly in the QRadar interface. QSM session information can include any event field available in QRadar e.g. Log Source Name, Event Name, IP addresses, Custom Properties. Configuration Different profiles can be created to connect different QRadar instances via API (QSM must be installed and configured on each QRadar instance). © 2021 ScienceSoft™ | Page 5 from 27
QLEAN™ App Suite Users can define a specific set of columns for user activity tracking view, enable/disable debug mode and choose grouping criteria for a session activity report. QRadar Native Alternatives There is no such native functionality available in the QRadar interface. Every search in a series must be created and processed manually. QSM saves up to 3 working hours daily for an analyst who’s performing such investigations. License QSM is a commercial application by ScienceSoft with some of its functionality available for free. QSM license is required in case the user wants to export all session results to Excel and open particular session information in QRadar UI (a drill-down feature). IBM AppExchange https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/hub/extension/136433f58135047cf6f22539a6eade88 © 2021 ScienceSoft™ | Page 6 from 27
QLEAN™ App Suite QMEA Microsoft Exchange Audit Microsoft Exchange Audit for IBM Security QRadar SIEM is an application for exporting Microsoft Exchange Admin Audit and Mailbox Audit logs and forwarding log records via Syslog protocol (TCP/514) to the QRadar Console in near real time. The log format generated by QMEA is automatically recognized by QRadar, so there is no need to create a log source manually. Supported Microsoft Exchange versions are: • 2010 SP1+ • 2013 • 2016 Logs Collection The initial collection gets audit data for the last 1 hour. The previous collection time can be reset by clicking on the corresponding button in the configuration window to start another collection as an initial one. To minimize potential performance impact on Exchange Server, only the last 24-hour audit logs are being collected even if the previous collection occurred more than 24 hours ago. QRadar Native Alternatives These logs are not available via standard QRadar protocols. Third-party LogBinderEX solution is much more expensive and requires agent installation on target servers. License QMEA is a commercial application by ScienceSoft with some of its functionality available for free. QMEA license is required in case a user wants to collect data continuously in near real time. If no license is applied, data collection can only be performed once per 6 hours. IBM App Exchange https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/hub/extension/8e56283e90649e00f4cb707c72a42c5e © 2021 ScienceSoft™ | Page 7 from 27
QLEAN™ App Suite QWAD WinCollect Assisted Deployment QWAD WinCollect Assisted Deployment is designed to automatically install and configure IBM WinCollect Agent in the unmanaged mode. WinCollect is a Syslog event forwarder that administrators can use for forwarding events from Windows logs to QRadar. With either a standalone or managed deployment scenario, WinCollect can provide an efficient and convenient way to feed log data to the SIEM solution, not limited to native Windows audit journals but also the majority of Windows services like IIS, DHCP, DNS, and others. Many security architects realize that the integration of third-party agents into the corporate network is not an easy process. Even when all corporate requirements for minor performance impact, code sustainability and supportability are met, WinCollect agents still have to be deployed and configured all over the network. This task requires permanent coordination with operating systems admins, engaging automation tools for deployment, monitoring tools integration, manual interaction for specific log sources configuration on every target system, troubleshooting, upgrade policies implementation, etc. Once installed, QWAD easily covers the following scenarios: • Deploy WinCollect agent all over the network* using different deployment, authentication and host profiles for maximum flexibility; • Automatically configure all log source types supported by WinCollect** custom logs polling; • Filter out unnecessary events with X-Path; • Deploy and configure Sysmon along with WinCollect, easily integrate with VirusTotal; • Monitor the agent’s status, download remote agent logs for troubleshooting; • Perform remote upgrade, re-configure agents (detect new Windows services) without re-installation; • Avoid manual log sources creation: all automatically configured log sources are auto-detected in QRadar; • Plan and organize security-related infrastructure separately from operating systems infrastructure. *Supported Operating Systems: • Microsoft Windows 7 © 2021 ScienceSoft™ | Page 8 from 27
QLEAN™ App Suite • Microsoft Windows 10 • Microsoft Windows 2003 Server • Microsoft Windows 2008 Server • Microsoft Windows 2008R2 Server • Microsoft Windows 2012 Server • Microsoft Windows 2012R2 Server • Microsoft Windows 2016 Server • Microsoft Windows 2019 Server **Auto-configured Log Source Types: • Microsoft Windows Security Log • Microsoft Windows Application Log • Microsoft Windows System Log • Microsoft Directory Service Log • Microsoft File Replication Service Log • Microsoft Forwarded Event Log • Microsoft SQL Log • Microsoft IIS Log • Microsoft DHCP Logs • Microsoft Exchange: Outlook Web Access events (OWA) • Microsoft Exchange: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol events (SMTP) • Microsoft Exchange: Message Tracking Protocol events (MSGTRK) • Microsoft DNS Debug Logs • XPath Query and Sysmon Logs • Custom Plain-Text Logs • Custom IIS-Formatted Logs © 2021 ScienceSoft™ | Page 9 from 27
QLEAN™ App Suite QRadar Native Alternatives There is no such native functionality in QRadar. All steps must be performed manually which is extremely time-consuming. License QWAD is a commercial application by ScienceSoft with some of its functionality available for free. QWAD license is required in case the user wants to get a fully functional solution. If no license is applied, QWAD will be limited to three (3) target Windows hosts only for all deployment and monitoring tasks. IBM App Exchange https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/hub/extension/4f382fa29289032e03db51af981b74e5 © 2021 ScienceSoft™ | Page 10 from 27
QLEAN™ App Suite QIN Incident Notifier QIN Incident Notifier is an application that notifies users about new triggered offenses and assigns offenses to security analysts based on the following information: offense description, name of the rule that has triggered the offense, offense category, payload of related events and/or flows. As of version 1.0.1, notifications can be sent via the following messaging services: • Email (custom templates allowed) • Twilio SMS • Telegram • Slack • Jira • Teams The main purpose of all SIEM systems is to know ASAP about any security incidents that have just happened. IBM QRadar SIEM parses and correlates events from all kinds of sources and creates offenses whenever any security incident happens. There are out-of-the-box mechanisms, such as GUI and email notifications, that allow QRadar to notify security analysts about offenses. While out-of-the-box email notifications work fine, they still lack some flexibility and require some technical knowledge to create or edit an email template. Also, by using vanilla QRadar an offense cannot be assigned to a specific analyst based on the type or content of the offense. © 2021 ScienceSoft™ | Page 11 from 27
QLEAN™ App Suite QIN allows administrators to perform these tasks simply and configure notifications to be sent not only via email but also using SMS, Telegram, Slack, Jira and MS Teams messaging services. QIN uses rules to make decisions on where and how to send notifications and to assign offenses to analysts, as well as templates to determine the amount of information included in the message. Every rule is based on a regex that can be applied to offense description, name of the rule that has triggered the offense, offense category, or the actual payload of related events and/or flows. Integrated Rule Manager and Template Editor make it so easy to configure the app. © 2021 ScienceSoft™ | Page 12 from 27
QLEAN™ App Suite QRadar Native Alternatives Out-of-the-box QRadar offense notification mechanism is limited and cannot assign offenses; email template modification requires root access and does not support HTML tags. Native email notification can’t send offense ID and event details in the same notification, and there is no option to include several related events/flows, rule(s) details, and asset information. License QIN is a commercial application by ScienceSoft and it requires a license to unlock full functionality. Without a license the following restrictions are applied: • You are allowed to use only one Auto Assignment rule • You are allowed to use only one email notification type • Every email notification contains a “Free version” announcement • Configuration backup is not available IBM App Exchange https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/hub/extension/7fcc709a5d2aa4eec6daca7192d8253c © 2021 ScienceSoft™ | Page 13 from 27
QLEAN™ App Suite QDLA Dynamic License Allocator QDLA Dynamic License Allocator for IBM Security QRadar SIEM is an application that dynamically re-allocates EPS and FPM licenses across QRadar managed hosts to address the current EPS/FPM usage. It helps prevent events/flows drops when one Managed host experiences an EPS/FPM outburst while the others have free allocated capacity available. QDLA allows the user to set minimum and maximum EPS/FPM values per host or exclude specific hosts from dynamic re-allocation. QRadar Native Alternatives There is no such native functionality in QRadar. Users have to always monitor license consumption, and overlooked spikes may cause data loss. License QDLA is a commercial application by ScienceSoft which requires a valid license to operate. Free 7-days trial period with no restrictions is available upon installation. IBM App Exchange Coming soon. © 2021 ScienceSoft™ | Page 14 from 27
QLEAN™ App Suite QDATA LDAP Data Enrichment QDATA LDAP Data Enrichment for IBM Security QRadar SIEM is an application that synchronizes QRadar Reference Sets and Tables content with the information from Active Directory and other LDAP-based storages. QDATA supports multiple tasks for either periodic or scheduled synchronizations, complex LDAP queries, advanced configuration, per-task statistics, and in-app logging. QDATA is vital for developing rules that depend on specific account type or group of users. Use cases include: • Someone with Windows administrative account is accessing restricted servers; • Users from the HR department are logged in to Sales file server; • The Exchange server admin is accessing another person’s mailbox Using a simple flat list with usernames (reference set), it is just a matter of configuring proper LDAP query in QDATA and adding e.g. “when any of Username is contained in any of Corp_Admin_Accounts” as a rule test. QRadar Native Alternatives The official QRadar LDAP extension provides imported data in a format that cannot be used in correlation rules. License QDATA is a free application by ScienceSoft. Open Source / Apache 2. IBM App Exchange https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/hub/extension/dacdef785326c3412d53d35cd90eb0b4 © 2021 ScienceSoft™ | Page 15 from 27
QLEAN™ App Suite QVTI VirusTotal Integration for Hash Checking QVTI Virus Total Integration for IBM Security QRadar SIEM (aka QVTI) is an application for checking software process hashes against VirusTotal database using VirusTotal public API. QVTI checks file hashes against VirusTotal DB and generates offenses for malicious ones. QVTI relies on the Sysmon log data collected with WinCollect agents. Automatic Sysmon/WinCollect installation and configuration are possible with the QWAD WinCollect Assisted Deployment application. QRadar Native Alternatives There is no such native functionality in QRadar. Users have to manually extract hashes from the payload and upload them to VirusTotal. License QVTI is a free application by ScienceSoft. Open Source / Apache 2. Paid VirusTotal subscription is optional and cannot be purchased through ScienceSoft. IBM App Exchange https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/hub/extension/958aef69ad1215d8c075c8ebc0fb7d2b © 2021 ScienceSoft™ | Page 16 from 27
QLEAN™ App Suite QTOR Darknet Monitoring QTOR Darknet/TOR Nodes Monitoring for IBM Security QRadar SIEM is an application that allows users to easily monitor inbound and outbound connection to the Darknet via TOR relay and exit nodes. QTOR requires Internet access to reach https://onionoo.torproject.org website which is used to gather information about the active relay and exit TOR nodes. QTOR package contains the following security content: • QRadar application to poll TOR nodes; • 2 custom rules for inbound and outbound TOR connections monitoring (works for events and flows). QRadar Native Alternatives There is no such native functionality in QRadar. Users have to manually extract and search for the required data. License QTOR is a free application by ScienceSoft. Open Source / Apache 2. IBM App Exchange https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/hub/extension/9003eccba37a50232c19b43e6a682c9d © 2021 ScienceSoft™ | Page 17 from 27
QLEAN™ App Suite QMLA Missing Logs Alert QMLA Missing Logs Alert for IBM Security QRadar SIEM is an application that notifies users about Log Sources that have stopped sending events. QMLA uses QRadar log source groups and allows specifying a timeout for each group individually. Notifications are generated and sent via a set of rules shipped with the application. QMLA provides users with comprehensive information about Log Sources that have stopped sending events including Log Source Name, Log Source Type, Log Source Group, the last time events seen from this Log Source, etc. QRadar Native Alternatives QRadar provides notifications about Log Source groups that have stopped sending logs, but it requires a separate custom rule to be implemented for each group. QRadar native notifications for idle groups do not contain specific Log Source name, which makes it hard for administrators to identify it quickly. License Open Source / Apache 2. IBM App Exchange Available as a complimentary app within a commercial tool purchase. © 2021 ScienceSoft™ | Page 18 from 27
QLEAN™ App Suite QLSI Log Source Inventory QLSI Log Source Inventory for IBM Security QRadar SIEM is an application that generates periodical log source reports in Excel format and sends them by email. QLSI reports are: • configurable; • report data is separated by domains; • include log sources with all possible statuses (OK, in error, warning/timeout, disabled, unknown); • include all important log source information and a legend; • presented in MS Excel format that allows users to easily sort and filter the data. QRadar Native Alternatives Log Source Management extension and QRadar reports allow exporting to CSV format which is not quite convenient for analysis and reporting. QLSI report contains unique information that is not available from standard exports, e.g. EPS values per each log source. License Open Source / Apache 2. IBM App Exchange Available as a complimentary app within a commercial tool purchase. © 2021 ScienceSoft™ | Page 19 from 27
QLEAN™ App Suite QSSA Slow Search Alert QSSA Slow Search Alert for IBM Security QRadar SIEM is an application that notifies users via email when protracted active searches are detected in the system. QRadar Native Alternatives There is no such native functionality in QRadar. License Open Source / Apache 2. IBM App Exchange Available as a complimentary app within a commercial tool purchase. © 2021 ScienceSoft™ | Page 20 from 27
QLEAN™ App Suite QOR Offense Reporter QOR Offense Reporter for IBM Security QRadar SIEM is an application that generates periodical offense reports in Excel format and sends them by email. Offense Reports are: • configurable; • report data is separated by domains; • include all offenses (active, inactive, closed); • include a closing date, reason, notes, closed-by-user, etc.; • presented in MS Excel format that allows users to easily sort and filter the data. QRadar Native Alternatives QRadar reports allow exporting offenses to CSV format which is not quite convenient for analysis and reporting. QOR report also contains unique information that is not available in standard exported data, e.g. notes, closing reasons, offense rule name, etc. License Open Source / Apache 2. IBM App Exchange Available as a complimentary app within a commercial tool purchase. © 2021 ScienceSoft™ | Page 21 from 27
QLEAN™ App Suite QLED Log Source EPS Details QLED Log Source EPS Details for IBM Security QRadar SIEM is an application that allows users to easily monitor the number of events received by each log source and exceeding a configurable EPS threshold. QLED does not utilize heavy AQL queries, but rather requests data via QRadar API, stores EPS statistics data in a built-in database and visualizes it via charts in a new QRadar tab. QRadar Native Alternatives The native Top Log Sources dashboard shows the number of events instead of EPS (conversion/calculation is needed), does not allow drilling down to details of specific event types – manual searching is required, and utilizes heavy AQL queries. License Open Source / Apache 2. IBM App Exchange Available as a complimentary app within a commercial tool purchase. © 2021 ScienceSoft™ | Page 22 from 27
QLEAN™ App Suite QEFC Exclude From Correlation QEFC Exclude From Correlation for IBM Security QRadar SIEM is an extension that allows users to temporarily prevent rules from generating new offenses for specific offense sources (username, IP address, etc.). The application is useful when the incident response team has already identified a compromised host or username and do not need further notifications for the same source until the asset is fully recovered. QEFC package contains the following security content: • QRadar application (a new button on the offense details page and configuration page in Admin tab); • A custom rule which matches event/flow property (Username and Source IP by default) with data in the reference set populated with a button click. QRadar Native Alternatives There is no such native functionality in QRadar. Analysts must manually change all rules that might trigger the required property. License Open Source / Apache 2. IBM App Exchange Available as a complimentary app within a commercial tool purchase. © 2021 ScienceSoft™ | Page 23 from 27
QLEAN™ App Suite QFSO Find Similar Offenses QFSO Find Similar Offenses for IBM Security QRadar SIEM is an extension that adds a new button on the offense details page. By clicking this button, users get a list of all offenses generated by the same rule. If multiple rules contribute to the offense, users will be asked to select a specific rule. This application is useful for speeding up offense investigations and tuning rules. QRadar Native Alternatives There is no such native functionality in QRadar. Analysts have to manually search for similar offenses. License Open Source / Apache 2. IBM App Exchange Available as a complimentary app within a commercial tool purchase. © 2021 ScienceSoft™ | Page 24 from 27
QLEAN™ App Suite QDGA DGA Analyzer QDGA DGA Analyzer for IBM Security QRadar SIEM is an application that includes rules and reference sets and serves as a collector of "bad" domains that were created by Domain Generation Algorithms. Using a special rule, these domains collected with specified log sources are put to a selected Reference Set. Then, QDGA processes and filters collected domains by a trained neural network and notifies users via offenses about detected suspicious domains. QRadar Native Alternatives DGA processing is available in the QRadar DNS Analyzer application. QDGA is a lightweight alternative to that application. License Open Source / Apache 2. IBM App Exchange Available as a complimentary app within a commercial tool purchase. © 2021 ScienceSoft™ | Page 25 from 27
QLEAN™ App Suite MITRE Windows Integration App MITRE ATT&CK tactics for Microsoft Windows by ScienceSoft are based on logs provided by properly configured Microsoft Sysmon tool. System Monitor (Sysmon) is a Windows system service and device driver that, once installed on a system, remains resident across system reboots to monitor and log system activity to the Windows event log. It provides detailed information about process creations, network connections, and changes to file creation time. By collecting its events into the SIEM and subsequently analyzing them, you can identify malicious or anomalous activity, and understand how intruders and malware operate on your network. While being thoroughly tested and tuned, some rules are disabled by default to prevent potential false- positives in the production SIEM environment, so make sure to enable them after configuring Sysmon. The rules can be easily mapped to MITRE Techniques using QRadar Use Case Manager. The app includes detailed instructions and prepared configuration files to properly set up Sysmon and WinCollect services on target systems. QRadar Native Alternatives There is no such native functionality in QRadar. All correlation rules must be developed and corresponding configuration of target systems must be investigated and performed manually. License MITRE Windows Integration App is a commercial application by ScienceSoft with some of its functionality available for free. The free version contains 78 correlation rules whereas the paid one provides 155 tactics. IBM App Exchange https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/hub/extension/23ac3448fff12a2f49a2ea44a63521a0 © 2021 ScienceSoft™ | Page 26 from 27
QLEAN™ App Suite MITRE Linux Integration App MITRE ATT&CK tactics for Linux OS by ScienceSoft are based on auditd logs provided by a properly configured auditing component. Auditd is a userspace component for the UNIX Auditing System (Audit Daemon) that provides users with a security auditing aspect in various Linux distributives. The set of rules developed by ScienceSoft includes auditd configuration steps that must be performed in order to work properly for these rules. Linux MITRE ATT&CK rules are well-tested and tuned. To start the work with the app, make sure to enable the rules when the auditd configuration is done, as they are disabled by default in order to prevent possible false-positives in the production SIEM environment. The rules can be easily mapped to MITRE Techniques using QRadar Use Case Manager. The app includes detailed instructions and prepared configuration files to properly set up syslog and auditd components on target systems. QRadar Native Alternatives There is no such native functionality in QRadar. All correlation rules must be developed and corresponding configuration of target systems must be investigated and performed manually. License MITRE Linux Integration App is a commercial application by ScienceSoft with some of its functionality available for free. The free version contains 47 correlation rules out of 67 available in the paid one. IBM App Exchange https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/hub/extension/79d1dd8735f00396a524e4fa7d361a51 © 2021 ScienceSoft™ | Page 27 from 27
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