Wazuh Beginner Tutorial Demonstrates Endpoint Monitoring and Attack Detection

Summary

The tutorial installs Wazuh on Ubuntu, enrolls an endpoint agent, and demonstrates lab detection of SSH password guessing, a netcat reverse shell, and SQL injection using built-in and custom rules.

Key points

• Installs Wazuh on an Ubuntu server and enrolls an endpoint agent to send logs and telemetry to the monitoring server.
• Explains centralized log collection and reviews Wazuh dashboard alerts and endpoint monitoring modules.
• Shows configuration assessment results against a CIS benchmark, including checks with remediation guidance.
• Simulates SSH password guessing in a lab and shows Wazuh surfacing invalid-user and login activity.
• Creates a custom process-monitoring rule to detect a netcat listener associated with a reverse-shell demonstration.
• Simulates SQL injection against an Apache server and shows Wazuh detecting matching activity in access logs.