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Security Monitoring with Wazuh

By : Rajneesh Gupta
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Security Monitoring with Wazuh

By: Rajneesh Gupta

Overview of this book

Explore the holistic solution that Wazuh offers to improve your organization’s cybersecurity posture with this insightful guide. Security Monitoring with Wazuh is a comprehensive resource, covering use cases, tool integration, and compliance monitoring to equip you with the skills you need to build an enterprise-level defense system. The book begins by setting up an Intrusion Detection System (IDS), integrating the open-source tool Suricata with the Wazuh platform, and then explores topics such as network and host-based intrusion detection, monitoring for known vulnerabilities, exploits, and detecting anomalous behavior. As you progress, you’ll learn how to leverage Wazuh’s capabilities to set up Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR). The chapters will lead you through the process of implementing security monitoring practices aligned with industry standards and regulations. You’ll also master monitoring and enforcing compliance with frameworks such as PCI DSS, GDPR, and MITRE ATT&CK, ensuring that your organization maintains a strong security posture while adhering to legal and regulatory requirements. By the end of this book, you’ll be proficient in harnessing the power of Wazuh and have a deeper understanding of effective security monitoring strategies.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Part 1:Threat Detection
4
Part 2: Threat Intelligence, Automation, Incident Response, and Threat Hunting
9
Part 3: Compliance Management
12
Chapter 9: Glossary

Security Automation Using Shuffle

Every day, the average security operations team receives over 11,000 security alerts (https://start.paloaltonetworks.com/forrester-2020-state-of-secops.html), including suspicious activity, intrusion attempts, privileged user and account monitoring, abnormal external communication, and unauthorized access attempts.

The majority of an analyst’s time (almost 70%) is spent investigating, triaging, or responding to alerts, and the majority of these alerts must be processed manually, greatly slowing down a company’s alert triage process. According to the same report, about 33% of these alerts turn out to be false positives. An SOC analyst can get frustrated with this overwhelming number of security alerts and repetitive false positives. This leads to the need for security automation, and this is where SOAR (Security Orchestration and Automation Response) plays a critical role. SOAR is a set of security features that enables businesses...