Securing IBM Spectrum Scale with QRadar and IBM Cloud Pak for Security

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The focus of this document is to demonstrate how the IBM® Unified Data Foundation (UDF) infrastructure plays an important role in delivering the persistence storage (PV) to containerized applications, such as IBM Cloud® Pak for Security (CP4S), with IBM Spectrum® Scale Container Native Storage Access (CNSA) that is deployed with IBM Spectrum scale CSI driver and IBM FlashSystem® storage with IBM Block storage driver with CSI driver. Also demonstrated is how this UDF infrastructure can be used as a preferred storage class to create back-end persistent storage for CP4S deployments.

We also highlight how the file I/O events are captured in IBM QRadar® and offenses are generated based on predefined rules. After the offenses are generated, we show how the cases are automatically generated in IBM Cloud Pak® for Security by using the IBM QRadar SOAR Plugin, with a manually automated method to log a case in IBM Cloud Pak for Security.

This document also describes the processes that are required for the configuration and integration of the components in this solution, such as:

Integration of IBM Spectrum Scale with QRadar
QRadar integration with IBM Cloud Pak for Security
Integration of the IBM QRadar SOAR Plugin to generate automated cases in CP4S.

Finally, this document shows the use of IBM Spectrum Scale CNSA and IBM FlashSystem storage that uses IBM block CSI driver to provision persistent volumes for CP4S deployment. All models of IBM FlashSystem family are supported by this document, including:

FlashSystem 9100 and 9200
FlashSystem 7200 and FlashSystem 5000 models
FlashSystem 5200
IBM SAN Volume Controller
All storage that is running IBM Spectrum Virtualize software