Wazuh Room for Improvement

Vikrant Puranik - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Cloud Security Operations at TraceLink, Inc.

Scalability is a constraint in the on-prem version of Wazuh in terms of the volume of logs we can manage. There are some minor glitches, but that's part of every tool, and they usually get addressed in subsequent updates.

I would like to see more Kubernetes security and log integrations. That will be one of the good things. Wazuh supports AWS or GCP cloud-native service integration, but it would be great if they added support for Kubernetes security and AWS or Azure-managed Kubernetes solutions. 

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AKASH MAJUMDER - PeerSpot reviewer
SOC Analyst at Ovelosec

One area where Wazuh could be improved is scalability. While it is scalable, it can suffer from reduced latencies.

In the next release, I would like to see a more seamless combination of a SIEM system. However, the current SIEM system can be noisy at times, resulting in false positives instead of true positives. In comparison, Splunk has been able to reduce the number of false positives in its system.

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SyedAli17 - PeerSpot reviewer
Confidential at PTA

One area where Wazuh could use some improvement is in its reporting mechanism, especially for high-level management like CSOs and CEOs. Creating executive-level reports can be a bit time-consuming and requires a lot of fine-tuning to meet specific organizational requirements. It would be helpful if Wazuh offered more standardized use cases commonly seen in the industry, reducing the effort needed for customization and fine-tuning. Overall, enhancing reporting features and providing standard use cases would be a valuable improvement for Wazuh.

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Wazuh
March 2024
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AliAhangari - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder and CTO at Soorin

My understanding is the latest version, eight, can't support the latest version of Elasticsearch.

The older versions do not support EQ query syntax. There need to be more languages on offer. 

They need to improve collation detection.

The deployment is a bit complex. 

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RA
Informatics Engineering Lecturer at Innovation Center STMIK AMIKOM

Improving the abilities related to security threat mapping, such as threat map landscape visualization, would be a great benefit. Adding the flexibility to integrate various plug-ins or modules into its core system would enhance functionality.

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CG
Principal Architect at Calsoft

Log data analysis could be improved. My IT team has been looking for an alternative because they want better log data for malware detection. We are also doing more container implementation also, so we need better container security, log data analysis, auditing and compliance, malware detection, etc. 

Overall, the implementation part of Azure is tricky. It can be simplified and automated more to shorten the deployment timeline, so we can immediately onboard the application. The entire implementation process should be user-friendly.

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David Arianto - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Operating Officer at PT. Visionet Data Internasional

There is room for improvement in terms of simplifying the deployment process. In addition, it would be beneficial if Wazuh focused on expanding its offensive modules as the primary enhancement. Another valuable development would be the introduction of a Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response capability. It could work on further developing its threat intelligence offerings as the third priority.

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Gerard Konan - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder & CEO at AGILLY

The implementation is very complex.

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MB
Software Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

There is room for improvement in Wazuh, but it's possible they are already working on it. The only challenge we faced with Wazuh was the lack of direct support. They charge for support, whether it's five days a week or seven days a week. We don't expect it to be free because revenue is generated through the support they provide. 

In future releases, I would like to see a feature. There is one feature we observed in a premium tool in the industry called Dynatrace. It provides automatic relations between different devices and components. For instance, if you receive a web login request, Dynatrace can trace and show you the path it takes from the firewall to the switch, then to the Apache server, the actual job application, and finally back to the client. It intelligently correlates all the components involved in a single event. 

If Wazuh could include this feature, where all the components are integrated, it would automatically relate them for any activity in your environment.

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Idris Aliyu - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a insurance company with 201-500 employees

I have yet to find the same capability in Wazuh to get logs from different sources into the system. I haven't been able to explore that.

There are many functions I want to add. For example, I want to get feeds from different places through threat intelligence. If the feature is there, it needs to be matured. Threat intelligence is key to the use case I've deployed the solution for. It would be good if Wazuh correlated it with the internal and external feeds. Integrating Wazuh with other platforms is a key aspect.

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SS
Senior Director of Engineering - Information Security at Apna

Since it's an open-source tool, scalability is the main issue. We haven't paid for it, so if we want to scale it, we would need to purchase the enterprise version, which can be quite expensive. So scalability and limited support are the main limitations of the free version.

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Rizwan-Alam - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Information Security at Akhtar Fuiou Technologies

The rules are very difficult because there are some limitations such as the inability to correlate two events. It should be easy to edit or change, but it can't be done. They are technical issues and I'm assuming they will be fixed over time.  

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Wajih Ul Hasan - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Engineer at Digit Labs

Wazuh has a drawback with regard to Unix systems. The solution does not allow us to do real-time monitoring for Unix systems. If usage increases, it would be a heavy fall on the other SIEM solutions or event monitoring solutions. 

We found a workaround by reducing the frequency, so it would give us some sort of real-time monitoring.

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Robert Cheruiyot - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security Consultant at Microlan Kenya Limited

I don't have any notes for new features. 

When it comes to interfacing with some other applications, it could be better. It could have better integration capabilities. They need to go towards integrating with more cloud applications and not just OS like Windows and Linux. 

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Sulabh Khanal - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of DevSecOps at Vairav Technology

We would like to see more improvements on the cloud. They need better cloud integration. We already have it on the latest version. However, we have yet to upgrade it. We'd like to see more overall integration support. That includes integration with cloud providers and more API-based integration, which would be helpful for lots of other integrations as well.

The active response needs to be better. I hope they create something on the front end. We have to do a lot of backend coding in Wazuh for active response. That's the major thing that we would like to see to improve it.

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PrzemekAndula - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity specialist at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

The tool does not provide CTI to monitor darknet. In the future, I want the tool to provide CTI to monitor the darknet so that by creating a single query, I can monitor the darknet.

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Gopinath Ravirajan - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Lead at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Some features, like alerting, are complex with Wazuh. Setting up alerts and triggers can be difficult, and the interface could be better. Compared to other platforms, such as New Relic, Wazuh's UI could be improved. New Relic has a similar interface, but the UI updates have made it a better product.

We have certain requirements regarding monitoring and whether Wazuh is completely compliant with them. It would be helpful to know if Wazuh is a complete solution for log monitoring, including the requirements of PCA and other security aspects.

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Vijay Muddu - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager server admin and security at Vivaconnect

The scalability of this solution could be improved. 

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SHEERAZ AHMED - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at SharpTel

The computing resources are consuming and do not make sense. It should be lighter in terms of memory, CPU, and computing. There is a direct need for improvisation for any user, and it should be lighter than the current version. In the next release, they should include secure mobile app integration.

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Dr. Sushan Banerjee - PeerSpot reviewer
GISO - Global Information Security Officer at Beyon Connect

It would be better if they had a vulnerability assessment plug-in like the one AlienVault has. In the next release, I would like to have an app with an alerting mechanism.

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Chetan_Sharma - PeerSpot reviewer
Linux System Administrator at Amity Software Systems Limited

There could be a hardware monitoring tool for the solution. It helps reduce the cost of utilizing external resources for the same.

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Youssef EL AZZOUZI - PeerSpot reviewer
Intern Master in Cybersecurity and Cybercrime at Université Abdelmalek Essaâdi

The solution's configuration could be faster.

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GS
Vice President Information Technology and Security at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

There's not much I like about Wazuh. Other products I've used were a lot more functional and user friendly. They came with reports and use cases out of the box. We need to configure Wazuh's alerts and monitoring capabilities manually. It'd be nice if we could select from templates and presets for use cases already built and coded. 

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Usman Arif - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Engineer at Ebryx (Pvt.) Ltd

It is an open-source tool with a strong community. We had positive experiences with community support, having received solutions for most of your inquiries in the past. However, it would be beneficial if Wazuh could provide clearer guidance or tutorials on how to add components to the user interface (UI), especially when integrating tools that aren't inherently supported by Wazuh. A more structured approach, perhaps with modular UI components, to facilitate easier integration and navigation within the Wazuh platform for such custom integrations would be beneficial.

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Md Salim Hossain Hossain - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Digital Transformation Engineer at OneWorldInfoTech

I have built some rules that produce duplicate alerts two or three times. Therefore, these rules should be consolidated. Alerts should be specific rather than repeatedly triggered by integrating multiple factors. This issue needs improvement to create a more efficient alert system.

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Haad Fida - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at 7Vals

The rules are hard coded. The tool doesn't detect anomalies or new environments. The product lacks AI features. We have to do a lot of manual searching.

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Robert Cheruiyot - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security Consultant at Microlan Kenya Limited

Wazuh doesn't cover sources of events as well as Splunk. You can integrate Splunk with many sources of events, but it's a painful process to take care of some sources of events with Wazuh. It's hard to really go into what Wazuh should add. If we call for Wazuh to improve one thing, then many things have to be improved. So if Wazuh's primary purpose is to cover the logs, then we can't really keep asking them to cover endpoints as well. And Wazuh doesn't have threat intelligence, to my knowledge. It can integrate with other sources of threat intel, but I haven't seen a native threat intel platform. Many people subscribe to Splunk for this platform. You can integrate threat intelligence from other solutions, but I haven't seen this feature in Wazuh.

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Maikel Richard Villar Rodriguez - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity supervisior at Optical Network

Wazuh needs more security features, particularly visualization features and a health monitor. In the next release, it should be easier to see the origin of events when connected to a firewall or switch. I would also like more integration with XDR and cloud-based formats like the GCO log testing system or Huawei.

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Shaamil Ashraff - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect - Database Administration at Mitra Innovation

The biggest part that's missing is threat intelligence. It isn't inbuilt, and if a sudden incident occurs, we don't get that feedback inside the SIEM tool. That's a big gap, I see. It would be better if we could get the threat intelligence feeds integrated with the SIEM tools. That would help us push value solutions to the clients in a big way.

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MU
Lead Security Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

A lot of things could be improved with Wazuh. A company I worked with used this product with their customizations since Wazuh is missing many things that a typical SIEM should have. One thing that was missing was log source management. We didn't have any modules for that. Wazuh's parsing is very complex. You must write decoders to make it as easy as in other SIEMs, like in QRadar.

The stability and scalability could be improved.

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Tiara Sakinah - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Security Consultant at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The technical support can be improved. Wazuh has some bugs that need to be fixed.

It would be good if we can have automation with respect to incidence responses.

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ShubhamKumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

When the agents are not upgraded in comparison to the server they start behaving unknowingly. Some modules will be working, some modules will not be working. It would be great if there could be customization for the decoder portion.

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Pathick Kerketta - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager (Information Security) at Girnarsoft Private Limited

Integration with Vyara could be better.

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OP
Security Analyst at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

They could include flexibility and customization capabilities by modifying for customers based on partner agreements. They could enhance governance-related tools for audit reports.

We conducted a cost-benefit evaluation and compared Wazuh with Sentinel and FortiCM. The decision to choose Wazuh was influenced by its compatibility with other systems and the strong open-source community.

In comparison, Microsoft has a huge community, but it needs to be easy to use. Additionally, FortiCM needs better community support.

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RS
Tech Lead Security at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Wazuh could improve the detection, it is not detecting all of the attacks. Additionally, it is lacking features compared to other solutions.

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SP
Chief Information Security Officer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Its user interface for sure can be improved. It is not so comfortable to use if you're looking for specific logs.

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VS
Security engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

At the moment, we haven't tried the cloud version yet. My customers are mostly into the cloud. Wazuh should come up with more in-built rules and integrations for the cloud.

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JK
CBO at a security firm with 11-50 employees

I think that the next release should be more suitable for large enterprises, because currently they are not because large companies do not rely on open source solutions.

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Buyer's Guide
Wazuh
March 2024
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