Defend Smarter with IBM Security QRadar SOAR (Resilient)

Step into the world of modern cybersecurity with IBM Security QRadar SOAR. This fasttrack course shows you how today’s security teams use smart automation to work faster, stay organized, and respond confidently to cyber incidents.

You’ll learn how QRadar SOAR helps security analysts cut through the noise, focus on real threats, and streamline their daily work. With easy‑to‑use playbooks, guided workflows, and a clean, award‑winning interface, the platform makes incident response clearer and more efficient—even for newcomers.

What You’ll Discover

- How automation helps security teams respond to incidents faster and with less stress 

- How dynamic playbooks guide you step‑by‑step through investigations 

- How QRadar SOAR reduces false alarms so analysts can focus on what truly matters 

- How organizations stay compliant with global privacy and breach‑reporting rules 

- How different teams—security, legal, HR, and more—collaborate smoothly during an incident 

This course gives you the foundations you need to understand and use QRadar SOAR with confidence. No advanced technical background required—just curiosity and a desire to learn how modern SOCs stay ahead of threats.

Key Platform Features

1_ Winner of a Red Dot User Interface Design Award, QRadar SOAR helps your organization:

2_ Cut response time with dynamic playbooks, customizable and automated workflows and recommended responses

3_ Streamline incident response processes by time-stamping key actions and aiding in threat intelligence and response

4_ Manage incident response to over 200 international privacy and data breach regulations with Breach Response

5_ Leverage the award-winning Playbook Designer to help orchestrate and automate your response processes. Your playbook evolves as the investigation proceeds, with threat enrichment happening at each stage of the process.

6_ Prepare for and respond to privacy breaches by integrating privacy reporting tasks into your overall incident response playbooks. Work together with privacy, HR and legal teams to address requirements for over 200 regulations.

Course Syllabus

Section 1: Warming Up

Lecture 1: Software Download

Lecture 2: Sizing Guidelines

Lecture 3: Installation Prerequisites

Lecture 4: Installation and Initial Configuration

Section 2: The Incident Command Center & the Response Blueprint

Lecture 5: SOAR GUI

Lecture 6: Users and Groups

Lecture 7: Threat Intelligence

Lecture 8: Incident Creation - part 1

Lecture 9: Incident Creation - part 2

Lecture 10: Incident Layout & Conditional Customization

Lecture 11: Privacy Module and Breach

Lecture 12: SOAR Basic Concepts

Lecture 13: SOAR Apps, App Host Pairing & First App Installation

Lecture 14: Playbooks Use Cases and Planning

Lecture 15: Playbook Design

Lecture 16: Manually Ban Malicious IPs

Lecture 17: Incidents and Objects

Lecture 18: Functions and Scripts in Playbooks

Lecture 19: Playbooks & Rules conditions and Validation

Lecture 20: Playbook Scripts and Sub-playbooks

Section 3: The Automation Advantage

Lecture 21: Activation Forms, Troubleshooting Scripts and Develop Analyst Second Opinion PB

Lecture 22: Rules, Workflows and Resources Conversion

Lecture 23: Auto Ban Malicious IPs

Lecture 24: Fill-Scan Results Rule & Script

Lecture 25: QRadar SIEM SOAR Integration - Part1

Lecture 26: QRadar SIEM SOAR Integration - Part2

Lecture 27: QRadar SIEM SOAR Integration - Part3

Lecture 28: QRadar SIEM SOAR Integration - Part4

Lecture 29: IOC Parser App

Lecture 30: Auto Inbound Email Integration

Section 4:Good to Know

Lecture 31: System Admin Permissions

Lecture 32: Export Playbook with Dependencies