WSLab VS Wazuh

Good on you man, you have some great practical experience that will go a long way. Once you learn more you’ll have something that a lot of IT engineers don’t typically have. I work in IT for a manufacturing environment and having electrical and/or mechanical experience will help a lot with your troubleshooting methodology. You have some great replies here which will hopefully start to bridge that gap. I can also highly recommend creating a small homelab for yourself. You can’t beat hands on learning, and there are a ton of great tools to get you started, e.g., https://github.com/microsoft/MSLab. This will help get you up and running quickly and give you an environment to play with. Good luck dude.

If you want to pen test AND implement/engineer, the cyber defense emphasis may be the best fit. As you progress, consider whether you're more drawn to networking/infrastructure or systems. A great approach: build labs that you think will be difficult to exploit, attack them, improve them. Lather, rinse, and repeat. you can do that with cloud platforms, web apps, mobile apps, IoT, etc. If you're not sure where to start, get your hands on a decently powered machine and check out the ready-to-build scenarios in MSLabs (https://github.com/microsoft/MSLab The Windows Event Forwarding scenarios are especially interesting).

If you have the time and resources for it, consider setting up a complex lab environment (https://github.com/microsoft/MSLab is a helpful starting point) with a few different types of targets. Within that environment, you can break whatever you want, try different hardening techniques, etc. I like to use that type of lab to test detection capabilities and scripted/triggered automations using sysmon, wazuh, and caldera.

take a look at https://github.com/microsoft/MSLab, you can install Hyper-V 2019 server and use the scenarios to create a lab to your liking. I'm using this approach to establish a stable/consistent starting point for an AD environment with OUs, computers, groups, and users generated randomly by https://github.com/davidprowe/BadBlood to gauge the differences in logging and detection fidelity between different EDR solutions.

Have a look at WSLab for rapid deployment of environments https://github.com/microsoft/WSLab

There is currently no feature for excluding specific SCA rules however this feature has been requested here and would be added to the roadmap for future releases.

I use Wazuh instead. Greenbone CE is severely limited and requires payment for anything beyond the very basic. Super simple installation more features.

Seems like something that should be documented somewhere more official than a random reddit post for sure. Added it to https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/issues/1112 for good measure.

Hmm, I've really been wanting to try Wazuh but since all our endpoints (Win10/11) are running a German locale I've run into https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/issues/16842 when checking the compliance checks (CIS benchmarks) on a test installation of 4.6.

Monitoring & Active Measures - Exporting firewall events to an external time-series database like I describe above is good to see who is touching your firewall or accessing your web site. Using an Intrusion Detection System / Intrusion Prevention System (IDS/IPS) such as open-source Suricata, which is a free package on pfSense, and deploying file system integrity monitoring, such as the open-source Wazuh on the exposed server are also good approaches to protecting yourself.

We are actively working on enhancing the system to allow users to mark vulnerabilities as "not vulnerable" or hide them. You can track the progress of this enhancement on the following GitHub issue: (Enhancement - Mark Vulnerabilities as Not Vulnerable).

Hello, thanks for using Wazuh, I will try to answer your questions: 1- I am going to check with the team in charge to see if there is a way. 2- Untriaged is a default value that is placed on vulnerabilities that do not have low, medium or high values https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh/issues/12675 3- As in the previous point, the providers of vulnerability lists have not provided the data.

Agents getting frequently pending and disconnecting