Lets get to the (end) point with QRadar

Lets get to the (end) point with QRadar

I've been with the QRadar team and our customers now for over 12 years, its been an exciting journey (I guess that's why I'm still here !). Every year as we start planning sessions I've without fail always had the thought 'we are only just getting going !'. This was mainly because have amazing customers, partners and team always overflowing with ideas of how we could continue to drive new innovation and outcome for our customers. We have always had a vision for QRadar to be a complete threat detection and response suite for our customers, definitely a lofty goal, but it has always been at the heart of what we do. In fact many people may not realize a couple of interesting things about QRadar.

  1. It stands for Q (Bond inventor) - Rapid Anomaly Detection And Response
  2. It started it's life as a Network Behavioral anomaly solution and then SIEM was added 5 years later. So its really only been missing native endpoint capabilities to provide the nirvana of the SOC visibility triad

Over the years we've enhanced QRadar to include deep packet inspection, Risk Management, IR and SOAR (with Resilient) , added an open eco system and application framework, added User Behavior Analytics and AI to assist analysts with triage and investigations. Recently we've announced our plans to evolve QRadar onto our Cloud Pak for Security platform, bringing many cloud native architecture characteristics to it. These have all been really exciting developments.

However, our news that we plan to acquire ReaQta.com, a leading European AI-based endpoint security provider, is the most exciting yet for so many reasons.

Firstly, I'm most excited about working with the ReaQta team, an amazing group of high caliber infosec technologists. You know when you have calls with people and you end up going off at all sorts of tangents brainstorming into really interesting areas technology and outcomes and you end up taking x2-3 times as long on the call ? Well that is this team, they are awesome.

Secondly, ReaQta's vision for the future, which is found in their technology, of SOC aligns 100% with ours, based around, four main principles, ease of consumption, automate work, hybrid cloud, and being open.

Finally, the ReaQta technology is not only wonderful complement to our recently announced QRadar XDR and QRadar XDR Connect, enabling us to not only complement organizations existing SIEM, NDR and EDR capabilities, but also not include these natively as an option for our customers and partners too. Above this though Reaqta also has some really great unique differentiating capabilities that its users absolutely love, and a great testament to the innovative thinking of the team. For example, it's NanoOS technology is amazing, it enables its agent to run in a completely separate virtual machine that renders it undetectable and impossible to interfere with by malware. The technology also really leans into 'edge analytics' putting AI right and analytics right on the endpoint themselves ensuring faster threat detection and response. It also includes AI that not only improves detection, but also 'automates work', something which is at the heart of our AI strategy in IBM Security.

With intention to acquire, we plan to bring ReaQta and IBM Security together to provide a Connected, Unified, Intelligent and Open security solution.

I'm super excited for the future working with the ReaQta team and bringing new innovative capabilities to our customers and partners that ultimately help the be more secure more quickly. Read more about the our announcement here

John Skinner

VP of Corporate/Business Development | Certified AI Technologist | C-Level Executive | Board Member

2y

Christopher Meenan and team, congrats on the launch of QRadar XDR and the ReaQta acquistion! This acquisition, combined with IBM Security's open ecosystem approach, specifically its ability to leverage its partners' telemetry and controls (e.g. Illumio's Network-Traversal Tripwires and Zero Trust Segmentation Controls) create great advantages for IBM Security. Consequently, QRadar XDR is positioned to surpass all other XDR's with faster Time-To-Detection and Time-to-Effective-Response. Especially when detecting and containing traversal-driven threats like ransomware and supply chain attacks. Illumio is proud to be IBM Security's tech integration partner, on both pre-attack Zero Trust Network Segmentation+Telemetry, and in early-attack Investigation, Detection, and Automated Response.

Alex Velasco

Talent Acquisition Specialist II @ Johns Hopkins | Respiratory Therapist Recruitment

2y

Fantastic News!

Marc Haeverans

Security Software Sales at IBM

2y

Great news! Great article, Chris! Thx

Carter D. Garrison, MBA

Product Marketing | Product Strategy | Digital Marketing | Brand Marketing |

2y

Congrats to the entire team! Excited to see this come to fruition!

Jamie Cowper

VP of Marketing at Noetic Cyber

2y

Congratulations Christopher Meenan, great to see this happen!

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