skill request: Wazuh XDR for unified EDR, SIEM, and compliance monitoring

[skyopsai]

Summary

The incident-response category has strong forensics coverage (osquery, Velociraptor, Sigma) but no unified EDR/SIEM skill. Wazuh is the leading open-source XDR/SIEM platform combining endpoint detection, log analysis, file integrity monitoring, and compliance dashboards in a single agent+manager architecture. It fills a critical gap between post-incident forensics and real-time detection.

Requested Skill: incident-response/detection-wazuh

What to Cover

Core workflows:

1. Agent deployment and enrollment

# Install agent and register to manager
WAZUH_MANAGER='10.0.0.2' WAZUH_AGENT_NAME='web-prod-01' \
  apt install wazuh-agent && systemctl start wazuh-agent

2. Custom detection rules — write rules that trigger on specific log patterns

<!-- Detect sudo privilege escalation -->
<rule id="100001" level="10">
  <if_sid>5402</if_sid>
  <match>COMMAND=/bin/bash</match>
  <description>Sudo to bash shell detected - possible privilege escalation</description>
  <mitre><id>T1548.003</id></mitre>
</rule>

3. File Integrity Monitoring — detect unauthorized changes to critical files

<syscheck>
  <directories check_all="yes" report_changes="yes" realtime="yes">
    /etc,/usr/bin,/usr/sbin
  </directories>
</syscheck>

4. Active response — auto-block IPs triggering brute-force rules

<active-response>
  <command>firewall-drop</command>
  <location>local</location>
  <rules_id>5763</rules_id>  <!-- SSH brute force -->
  <timeout>600</timeout>
</active-response>

5. Compliance dashboards — query PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR compliance status via API

Integration with Existing Skills

• Sigma rules (detection-sigma) can be converted to Wazuh XML rules using sigma convert -t wazuh
• osquery results can be forwarded to Wazuh as custom log sources
• Wazuh alerts can trigger Velociraptor hunts for deep forensic collection

Frameworks

• MITRE ATT&CK (native integration in Wazuh dashboard)
• PCI-DSS Req 10 (logging), Req 11.4 (IDS/IPS)
• HIPAA § 164.312(b) (Audit Controls)
• GDPR Article 32 (security of processing)
• NIST CSF DE.CM (Continuous Monitoring)
• CIS Controls v8 — Control 8 (Audit Log Management), Control 13 (Network Monitoring)