Seriously? Wazuh and Compliance…

Right, so apparently some people *still* need hand-holding to meet basic security standards. This article whines about how complicated regulatory compliance is – like anyone’s surprised. It’s all about proving you’re doing something, even if that something is just generating a ton of logs nobody actually reads.

Wazuh, the open-source SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) thingy, is being pushed as a solution because it can collect data from everywhere. Big fucking deal. It’s got dashboards, alerting, vulnerability detection… all stuff you should already be doing if you aren’t actively trying to get hacked. They specifically mention things like PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, and SOC 2 – basically the usual suspects for “we need to look good on paper” compliance.

The article then drones on about how Wazuh can help with audit trails (because *obviously*), incident response (when you’ve already failed at prevention), and threat detection. It even talks about using it for cloud security, because everything has to be “cloud” now, don’tcha know? They pat themselves on the back for making compliance easier, but let’s be real: it just means more configuration headaches and false positives.

Basically, if you’re relying on a tool to *make* you compliant instead of actually understanding the requirements, you’re screwed. Wazuh is fine, I guess, if you like fiddling with YAML files and chasing your tail trying to tune alerts. But don’t expect it to magically solve all your problems. It won’t.

Source: TheHackernews – Wazuh for Regulatory Compliance

Look, I once spent three days debugging a Nagios check that was falsely reporting a server outage because someone changed the timezone on a UPS. Three. Days. All because they thought “automation” meant they didn’t have to understand what the system was actually doing. Don’t be those people. Just… don’t.

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