Transforming IBM QRadar Alerts into Proactive Threat Response with Real-Time Criminal IP Identification
Criminal IP Integrates with IBM QRadar to Enhance Threat Detection and Response
Criminal IP, a leading provider of AI-powered threat intelligence and attack surface intelligence, has announced its integration with IBM QRadar Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) solutions.
Integration Enhances Threat Detection and Response
This integration brings external, IP-based threat intelligence directly into IBM QRadar’s detection, investigation, and response workflows, enabling security teams to identify malicious activity faster and prioritize response actions more effectively.
IBM QRadar is widely adopted by enterprises and public-sector organizations as a central platform for security monitoring, automation, and incident response.
Real-time Threat Visibility and Automated Risk Assessment
Real-time threat visibility from firewall traffic logs is now possible with the Criminal IP QRadar SIEM integration.
Security teams can analyze firewall traffic logs and automatically assess the risk associated with communicating IP addresses.
Traffic data forwarded into IBM QRadar SIEM is analyzed through the Criminal IP API and reflected directly inside the SIEM interface.
Observed IP addresses are automatically classified into High, Medium, or Low risk levels from a threat intelligence perspective, enabling SOC teams to quickly identify high-risk IPs, monitor inbound and outbound traffic, and prioritize response actions.
Interactive Investigation and Threat Enrichment
The integration also enables interactive investigation without leaving QRadar.
Analysts can investigate suspicious IPs directly from traffic logs, and access detailed IP reports that provide additional context, including threat indicators, historical behavior, and external exposure signals.
This streamlined workflow supports faster decision-making during time-sensitive investigations.
Criminal IP is also integrated with IBM QRadar SOAR to support automated threat enrichment during incident response.
Using pre-built playbooks, Criminal IP intelligence can be applied to IP address and URL artifacts, with enrichment results returned directly into SOAR cases as artifact hits or incident notes.
Improved Detection Accuracy and Response Prioritization
By integrating Criminal IP with IBM QRadar SIEM and SOAR, organizations can combine QRadar’s correlation, investigation, and response capabilities with context-rich external threat intelligence derived from real-world internet exposure.
This approach improves detection accuracy, shortens investigation cycles, and enhances response prioritization across SOC operations.
According to Byungtak Kang, CEO of AI SPERA, the integration highlights the growing importance of real-time, exposure-based intelligence in modern SOC environments and underscores Criminal IP’s focus on improving detection confidence and operational efficiency through practical, intelligence-driven integrations.
Criminal IP’s threat intelligence platform is used in over 150 countries worldwide and equips security teams with actionable threat intelligence to proactively identify, analyze, and respond to emerging threats.
Powered by AI and OSINT, it delivers threat scoring, reputation data, and real-time detection of a wide array of malicious indicators, including C2 servers, IOCs, and masking services like VPNs, proxies, and anonymous VPNs, across IPs, domains, and URLs.
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