Tag: Wazuh
All the articles with the tag "Wazuh".
Wazuh Active Response: automatically banning, isolating, and responding to incidents (part 4/6)
Part 4 of the Wazuh series: turning a fired detection into an automatic reaction — the anatomy of Active Response, the built-in firewall-drop, a custom nftables blocking script with a timeout and an admin-subnet safety exception, and how not to ban yourself.
Wazuh: writing custom rules and decoders so your SIEM doesn't drown in noise (part 3/6)
Part 3 of the Wazuh series: the anatomy of rules and decoders, a custom SSH brute-force detection with a threshold you own, a decoder for your application's JSON logs, overriding default rules instead of editing them, and testing everything with wazuh-logtest without restarting the manager.
Wazuh: enrolling agents, turning on FIM and rootcheck for Linux and Windows (part 2/6)
Part 2 of the Wazuh series: enrolling agents on Ubuntu and Windows — automatically via authd or manually with keys — enabling syscheck FIM with realtime and whodata, plus rootcheck, a CIS SCA policy and agent groups. The real question: how to get signal instead of a stream of alerts about benign changes.
Wazuh from scratch: standing up an open-source SIEM/XDR in one evening (part 1/6)
Kicking off a series on Wazuh, the free open-source SIEM/XDR. Part one is installation only: manager, indexer and dashboard via Docker Compose, TLS certificates, first login, and an honest look at how single-node differs from production.