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Published inApr 2024
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781837632152
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Rajneesh Gupta
Rajneesh Gupta
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Rajneesh Gupta

Rajneesh Gupta is a seasoned cybersecurity professional with over 11 years of industry experience. With a remarkable career focused on incident response, penetration testing, security compliance, and risk management, Rajneesh has established himself as a leading expert in the field. He is also an accomplished author, having penned the book "Hands-on with Blockchain and Cybersecurity." As a dedicated educator, Rajneesh has made a significant impact on the cybersecurity community by training over 60,000 students globally.
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Remotely managing Wazuh

Shuffle SOAR is capable of automating multiple security operation activities. When it comes to managing the Wazuh manager and its agent, there is a manual element where a security analyst has to manually add/remove/modify different attributes. The good news is that Wazuh provides a Wazuh API to allow a trusted party to communicate and send required data. In this section, we will remotely manage multiple Wazuh-related tasks, such as managing agents, rules, CDB lists, agent groups, and decoders. We will cover the following topics in this section:

  • Requirements
  • Managing Wazuh agents

Requirement

To remotely manage Wazuh using Shuffle SOAR, we need to set up three things – authentication, JWT token generation, and subsequent API requests.

Authentication

In order to allow Shuffle to talk to the Wazuh manager, Shuffle initiates the authentication process by providing valid authentication. The default credential of the Wazuh API is...

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Security Monitoring with Wazuh
Published in: Apr 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837632152

Author (1)

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Rajneesh Gupta

Rajneesh Gupta is a seasoned cybersecurity professional with over 11 years of industry experience. With a remarkable career focused on incident response, penetration testing, security compliance, and risk management, Rajneesh has established himself as a leading expert in the field. He is also an accomplished author, having penned the book "Hands-on with Blockchain and Cybersecurity." As a dedicated educator, Rajneesh has made a significant impact on the cybersecurity community by training over 60,000 students globally.
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