Introduction

Using the information provided in this guide, you can write your own apps that integrate the IBM Security QRadar SOAR Platform with your organization’s existing security and IT investments. Apps make security alerts instantly actionable, provides valuable intelligence and incident context, and enables adaptive response to complex cyber threats.

This guide is intended for programmers, testers, architects and technical managers interested in developing and testing apps with the SOAR platform. It assumes a general understanding of the SOAR platform, especially the playbook toolkit, message-oriented middleware (MOM) systems, and a knowledge of writing scripts in Python.