Proactive threat hunting with Wazuh
Organizations can use Wazuh for proactive threat hunting, a security practice that helps them find and report possible security threats before they become significant threats. This can take the form, for example, of analyzing network traffic patterns to detect anomalous behavior that may indicate a potential cyber threat. By contrast, the main goal of reactive cybersecurity defenses is to react to threats once they are identified or after an incident has taken place. As an example, antivirus software detects and eradicates known malware, and firewalls prevent malicious traffic from entering the network based on predefined rules by the security team.
When you do proactive threat hunting, you look for possible risks or weaknesses in a network before any damage can be caused. Instead of waiting for alerts or known signatures, we can use Wazuh to conduct threat hunting by performing real-time log analysis across multiple platforms, correlating events...
