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Course Outline
Open-Source SIEM Sovereignty
- Why cloud-based SIEMs pose compliance and cost risks for log retention.
- Wazuh architecture: server, indexer, dashboard, and agents.
- Comparison with Splunk, Sentinel, Elastic Security, and QRadar.
Deployment and Architecture
- Single-node and distributed deployment patterns.
- Docker Compose and Kubernetes manifests.
- Hardware sizing: CPU, RAM, and disk IOPS requirements for log ingestion.
- Certificate and TLS configuration for secure component communication.
Agent Management
- Installing agents via packages, Ansible, or Group Policy Objects (GPO).
- Agent enrollment, key exchange, and group assignment.
- Agentless monitoring via syslog, AWS S3, or API polling.
- Strategies for upgrading agents across large fleets.
Detection Engineering
- Using decoders and rules for log parsing and event extraction.
- Mapping rules to the MITRE ATT&CK framework categories.
- File integrity monitoring (FIM) and rootkit detection.
- Writing custom rules using XML and YAML syntax.
- Threat intelligence integration with MISP, VirusTotal, and AlienVault.
Incident Response and Automation
- Active response actions: firewall blocking, account disabling, and process termination.
- SOAR integration with Shuffle, n8n, or custom webhooks.
- Alert correlation and chaining of multi-stage attacks.
- Case management and evidence preservation.
Compliance and Reporting
- Mapping controls for PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, and NIST.
- Policy monitoring for password strength, encryption standards, and patching.
- Scheduled report generation and export.
- Ensuring audit trail integrity and detecting tampering.
Dashboards and Visualization
- Customizing Wazuh dashboards and creating widgets.
- Integrating with Grafana for advanced visualizations.
- Kibana compatibility for legacy Elastic deployments.
- Designing executive and operational SOC views.
Maintenance and Scaling
- Indexer shard management and hot-warm-cold data archiving.
- Log retention policies and legal hold procedures.
- Disaster recovery and cluster rebuild processes.
Requirements
- Intermediate knowledge of Linux and Windows system administration.
- Understanding of SIEM concepts, including correlation, alerting, and log aggregation.
- Prior experience with the Elastic Stack or OpenSearch.
Audience
- Security operations centers seeking to replace commercial SIEM solutions.
- Compliance teams requiring on-premise log retention.
- Government agencies needing sovereign threat detection capabilities.
21 Hours
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