Wazuh SIEM Study Notes
The Wazuh Study Guide notes go far beyond simple installation commands and dive into performance engineering principles critical for stability.
Deploying a modern SIEM platform without structure is a fast path to instability. Wazuh is powerful, but its documentation can feel overwhelming and scattered. That’s where structured Wazuh Study Guide notes become essential.
These Wazuh Study Guide notes condense 100+ pages of configuration insights, optimization strategies, and integration workflows into a focused, operational manual.
Whether you’re designing a SOC from the ground up or strengthening an existing deployment, these notes help you move from a basic installation to a hardened, production-ready security architecture.
From advanced indexer tuning to building custom decoders, the Wazuh Study Guide notes provide the technical clarity required to transform raw event data into high-confidence threat intelligence.
From The Study Guide: Installation & Performance Optimization
An improperly tuned SIEM can generate more problems than it solves.
The Wazuh Study Guide notes go far beyond simple installation commands and dive into performance engineering principles critical for stability.
You’ll find practical guidance for optimizing the Wazuh Indexer, including recommended JVM heap sizing (commonly 50% of available RAM), shard allocation strategies to minimize overhead, and thread pool configuration for handling high-volume log ingestion.
The Wazuh Study Guide notes also explain how to reduce disk bottlenecks through structured storage tiering (Hot/Warm/Cold) and how to enable memory locking to prevent critical processes from being swapped to disk under load.
These are not surface-level setup steps , they are the stability controls that keep your Wazuh cluster resilient when incident volume spikes and performance matters most.
Table of Contents:
- Important Note
- Definition
- How it works
- Wazuh Components
- Wazuh Installation
- Installing agents
- Optimizing Wazuh Performance
- Configuring Logs Rotation
- Understanding Wazuh Rules
- The goal of Wazuh Rules
- Wazuh Rule Elements
- Order of Processing Rules
- Testing Wazuh Rules
- Creating Custom Rules
- Wazuh Decoders
- Testing Decoders
- Integrating Wazuh with Suricata IDS
- Integrating Wazuh with VirusTotal
- Integrating Wazuh with TheHive
- Integrating Wazuh with MISP
- Integration with Fortinet Firewall
- Vulnerability scanning
- Auditing against cyber security framework
- Policy compliance and auditing events
- Gathering windows event logs and forwarding to
- Wazuh with Sysmon
- Monitoring Linux workstations
Pages: 83
Format: PDF
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