What is Wazuh?
Wazuh is an open source security monitoring solution built on top of OSSEC. It provides threat detection, compliance, and data protection capabilities. Some of the key features of Wazuh include:
- Log analysis - Analyzes logs from applications, operating systems, and devices to detect suspicious activity, intrusions, policy violations etc.
- File integrity monitoring - Monitors changes to critical files and notifies for unauthorized modifications.
- Intrusion detection - Uses signature and anomaly based detection to identify malware, exploits, and other threats.
- Incident response - Provides alerts and data needed by security teams to respond to incidents.
- Regulatory compliance - Out-of-the-box compliance checks and reporting for regulations like PCI DSS, GDPR, HIPAA.
- Cloud workload protection - Secures and monitors cloud workloads across platforms like AWS, Azure, GCP.
- Centralized management - Manage and monitor security from a single unified console.
Wazuh integrates well with popular tools like Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana to provide dashboards, searching, reporting and analytics. It is fully open source and suitable for enterprises, governments and MSSPs.