Third-party credential managers

IBM Security® QRadar® SOAR Platform provides a built-in protected secrets capability to manage secrets securely. However, some situations might require you to use third-party credential managers.

For example, users might not be permitted to share the plain-text secret, which means that SOAR Platform administrators cannot create the protected secret. Or, you might need to frequently rotate the secrets on the SOAR Platform, making it difficult to manage those secrets within the allotted time frame.

Minimum version requirements

To use a third-party credential manager, the IBM® SOAR app must use resilient-circuits version 49.0 or later.

To check which version is used by your app, follow these steps:
  1. Open the app.

    The resilient-circuits version number is written to the app log file when it starts.

  2. In the app Configuration page, on the Details tab, click Download logs.
  3. Open the log file and find the resilient-circuits version number.

The resilient-circuits version is independent of the SOAR Platform version. For example, SOAR Platform 50 can run an app that uses resilient-circuits == 51.0.4321.