Security News > 2023 > November > Leveraging Wazuh to combat insider threats

Effective strategies for mitigating insider threats involve a combination of detective and preventive controls like continuous monitoring, alerting, and automated incident response.

SIEM and XDR solutions facilitate the collection and correlation of security events, providing contextual information to assess the severity and potential impact of insider threats.

When dealing with insider threats, automated incident response is important as it allows security teams to swiftly respond to detected threats.

Wazuh is a free, open source security platform that offers unified XDR and SIEM capabilities.

File integrity monitoring: The File Integrity Monitoring capability of Wazuh allows security teams to monitor files and directories.

Security configuration assessment: Wazuh Security configuration assessment module scans monitored endpoints to detect the presence of misconfiguration flaws that open the endpoint to vulnerabilities.

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