Technical requirements
To complete all the hands-on exercises in this chapter, you will need the following:
- Internet connectivity with an up-to-date Google Chrome or a Chromium-based browser to access https://goo.gle/chroniclelab.
- Your choice of code editor, such as VSCode, with the Python extensions installed.
- Python 3.9+ installed with internet connectivity to the official pypi.org repositories and local user privileges to run and modify scripts from https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Automating-Security-Detection-Engineering.
- Access to an Ubuntu Desktop Virtual Machine (VM) with local administrative privileges and internet connectivity running a recommended 8 GB of RAM, four CPU cores, and Ubuntu 22.04.x LTS: https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop/thank-you?version=22.04.3&architecture=amd64.
- Access with administrative privileges to a VM or host machine that can run a single instance of a Wazuh EDR agent on any supported OS with minimum runtime requirements...