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Wazuh SIEM &
Security Monitoring

Open-source security monitoring, threat detection, and compliance reporting.

Wazuh: The Open Source Security Platform

Your infrastructure produces thousands of security events every minute. Managing security across different systems gets tedious. Wazuh helps you make sense of them before they become real problems. The below is what you get when you deploy Wazuh.

Security Monitoring Without the Headaches

Intrusion Detection That Catches Things

File integrity monitoring, rootkit detection, and real-time log analysis working together. It catches the stuff that matters and doesn't drown you in false positives.

Compliance Reporting You Can Actually Use

PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, NIST 800-53—it maps the controls so you don't have to. Built-in dashboards show you where you stand.

Cloud and Container Visibility

Your workloads are running in AWS, Azure, Docker and Kubernetes. Wazuh monitors all of it from one place.

Vulnerability Detection

Automated scanning that actually tells you what's exposed and what needs patching first.

Active Response

When something suspicious happens, Wazuh can take action automatically.

Open Source and Extensible

No vendor lock-in, no per-agent licensing fees. The API makes integrations straightforward.

Why Teams Choose Wazuh

Some SIEM solutions cost more than your entire security budget, others promise the moon but deliver a complicated mess. Wazuh sits in a different category.

It started because security teams needed something that worked across their entire environment—servers, endpoints, cloud instances, containers—without requiring a masters degree to configure. Pair it with Linux server hardening and a formal security assessment for a complete defence-in-depth posture, and feed its alerts into network monitoring for full infrastructure visibility.

The architecture is straightforward: lightweight agents collect data, the central manager analyses it, and Elasticsearch handles the indexing.

What makes it work is the ruleset. Years of community contributions mean detection rules for everything from brute force attacks to suspicious AWS API calls.

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Threat Monitoring

Whether you're running a startup with a handful of servers or managing enterprise infrastructure, Wazuh scales to fit.

If you're tired of security tools that either do too little or overcomplicate everything, give Wazuh a try.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Wazuh SIEM deployment from South African businesses.

What is Wazuh and how does it work as a SIEM?
Wazuh is an open source security platform that combines SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and XDR (Extended Detection and Response) capabilities. Lightweight agents installed on your servers and endpoints collect logs, file integrity data, and vulnerability information, which is forwarded to a central Wazuh manager for real-time analysis and alerting. South African businesses in Johannesburg and Cape Town use it to gain full visibility across their infrastructure without expensive per-seat licensing.
Does Wazuh help with POPIA and compliance reporting?
Yes. Wazuh includes built-in compliance dashboards for PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, and NIST 800-53. For South African businesses, the audit logging, file integrity monitoring, and access control visibility it provides directly supports POPIA compliance obligations — particularly around data breach detection and access to personal information.
Can Wazuh monitor cloud environments and containers?
Yes. Wazuh monitors AWS, Azure, and GCP environments via API integrations, and monitors Docker and Kubernetes workloads through its agent and agentless capabilities. Whether your infrastructure is in a South African data centre or a cloud region, Wazuh gives you a single pane of glass for all security events.
What does a Wazuh SIEM deployment by Openbyte include?
Our Wazuh deployments include server provisioning and hardening, Wazuh manager and indexer installation, agent deployment across your endpoints and servers, custom rule tuning to reduce false positives, dashboard configuration, and a handover session so your team understands what they're looking at. We serve businesses across Johannesburg, Cape Town, and the rest of South Africa remotely or on-site.
How much does a Wazuh SIEM deployment cost?
Wazuh itself is free and open source — you pay only for the server infrastructure and our deployment and configuration time. Pricing depends on the number of agents, your infrastructure complexity, and whether you need ongoing managed monitoring. Contact us for a tailored quote for your South African business.
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