Quad Miners Partners with IBM Security to Deliver Integrated Network Detection Solution “QUAD-X”

Summary

Quad Miners has signed an Embedded Solution Agreement (ESA) with IBM Security and introduced QUAD-X, a joint solution that combines its network full packet capture platform, Network Blackbox, with IBM QRadar's log analysis capabilities. The integration enables customers to draw on QRadar's API ecosystem, global threat intelligence feeds, and Watson-based analysis. Quad Miners continues to expand its network full packet capture technology across public sector and financial services customers domestically, alongside efforts to enter overseas markets including the United States and Singapore.      

Company and Core Product

Quad Miners is a South Korea-based security company founded in November 2017 by CEO Park Beom-jung, who previously spent approximately 15 years in security technology, planning, and sales roles at AhnLab, Netmarble, and IBM. The company's flagship product, Network Blackbox, is a full packet capture and analysis appliance designed to collect network traffic without loss. Depending on an organization's security policy, it selectively analyzes, stores, and manages the following data types:

1. Packet header information
2. Payload information
3. Flow information
4. Full packet information

Quad Miners has also released Cloud Blackbox, which enables analysis within AWS cloud environments. [Fact check needed: patent details related to index and metadata processing referenced in the source material] In August 2020, Quad Miners was listed as a Sample Vendor in Gartner's Market Guide. [Fact check needed: precise listing details and terminology]  

Partnership with IBM Security

In August 2020, Quad Miners signed an Embedded Solution Agreement (ESA) with IBM Security. Under the agreement, the two companies developed an integrated solution connecting Network Blackbox with IBM QRadar and combining packet-based analysis with log analysis.  

QUAD-X: Key Capabilities

QUAD-X, developed through the partnership, combines Network Blackbox's packet analysis functions with QRadar's log analysis capabilities. The solution provides access to:

1. Integration with QRadar's application programming interfaces (APIs)
2. Global threat intelligence data
3. IBM Watson-based analysis capabilities

 

Expanding Domestic and International Reach

Quad Miners has supplied its network full packet capture technology to customers in the public and financial sectors in South Korea [fact check needed: exact deployment scale], and is also pursuing expansion into overseas markets, including the United States and Singapore.  

This content has been adapted from a news article originally published by ETNews, based on objectively verifiable facts.