Incident Response with Wazuh
It is of utmost importance to have a rapid and efficient response plan in place to handle any security events that may arise in the ever-changing world of cybersecurity. For example, a sales employee opened up a malicious file with a name attached to an email pretending to be from an authorized business partner. This can result in a ransomware attack and bring down many mission-critical services. When such an incident happens, responding promptly can help to minimize the overall damage to the network. An efficient incident response (IR) can help businesses to promptly resume normal operations, thereby reducing the amount of downtime that occurs and the expenses connected with it.
In this chapter, we will learn how to leverage the Wazuh platform and other Wazuh-supported third-party tools to build an effective IR system. We will cover the following topics in this chapter:
- Introduction to incident response
- What is Wazuh active response? ...