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Course Outline
Open-Source SIEM Sovereignty
- Understanding the compliance and cost risks associated with cloud SIEMs for log retention.
- Overview of Wazuh architecture: server, indexer, dashboard, and agents.
- Comparative analysis with Splunk, Sentinel, Elastic Security, and QRadar.
Deployment and Architecture
- Single-node and distributed deployment patterns.
- Utilizing Docker Compose and Kubernetes manifests.
- Hardware sizing guidelines: CPU, RAM, and disk IOPS for log ingestion.
- Certificate and TLS configuration for secure component communication.
Agent Management
- Installing agents via packages, Ansible, or Group Policy Objects (GPO).
- Managing agent enrollment, key exchange, and group assignment.
- Implementing agentless monitoring through syslog, AWS S3, or API polling.
- Strategies for upgrading agents across large fleets.
Detection Engineering
- Utilizing decoders and rules for log parsing and event extraction.
- Mapping rule categories to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
- Implementing File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) and rootkit detection.
- Developing custom rules using XML and YAML syntax.
- Integrating threat intelligence from MISP, VirusTotal, and AlienVault.
Incident Response and Automation
- Executing active responses such as firewall blocking, account disabling, and process termination.
- Integrating SOAR tools like Shuffle, n8n, or custom webhooks.
- Correlating alerts and analyzing multi-stage attack chains.
- Managing cases and preserving evidence.
Compliance and Reporting
- Mapping controls to PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, and NIST standards.
- Monitoring policies for password strength, encryption standards, and patching status.
- Scheduling report generation and exports.
- Ensuring audit trail integrity and detecting tampering.
Dashboards and Visualization
- Customizing the Wazuh dashboard and creating widgets.
- Integrating with Grafana for advanced visualizations.
- Leveraging Kibana compatibility for legacy Elastic deployments.
- Creating executive and operational SOC views.
Maintenance and Scaling
- Managing indexer shards and implementing hot-warm-cold archiving.
- Establishing log retention policies and legal hold procedures.
- Planning for disaster recovery and cluster rebuilding.
Requirements
- Intermediate-level system administration skills for Linux and Windows.
- Fundamental understanding of SIEM concepts, including correlation, alerting, and log aggregation.
- Hands-on experience with the Elastic Stack or OpenSearch.
Audience
- Security Operations Centers (SOCs) looking to transition from commercial SIEMs.
- Compliance teams requiring on-premise log retention capabilities.
- Government agencies needing sovereign threat detection solutions.
21 Hours
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