Wazuh

Wazuh describes itself as the world's most widely used open source security solution, and backs that with three figures on its home page: more than 15 million protected endpoints, more than 100 thousand enterprise users and more than 30 million downloads a year. The platform costs nothing to download, and the company earns its living around it.

Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads

The pitch is a single agent and platform in place of historically separate tools. Listed capabilities include configuration assessment, malware detection, file integrity monitoring, threat intelligence, threat hunting, log data analysis and vulnerability detection. On the security operations side it names incident response, regulatory compliance and IT hygiene. Cloud coverage covers container security, posture management and workload protection across public clouds, private clouds and on-premises data centers. Its XDR pages stress real-time correlation and active responses, including remediation on the device itself, while the SIEM side handles monitoring, detection and alerting.

No license cost and no vendor lock-in

The site argues for flexibility and scalability as well. Users may modify the source code, and the platform connects with outside tools such as VirusTotal, TheHive and PagerDuty, acting as both a source and a receiver of security data. Contributors can submit functional modules and code improvements, which pass quality checks. Documentation is extensive, a weekly blog covers use cases and integrations, and community channels run on Slack, GitHub, Reddit, Discord and Google Groups.

Wazuh Cloud, support and training

Beyond the free software, the company sells Wazuh Cloud, a managed environment it calls ready to use and highly scalable, with a free trial. Professional support, consulting services and training courses are offered, and a partner program lets resellers join. Its about page says work began in 2015 and that more than 200 people now make up the team, spread across the world. Its team page lists Santiago Bassett as founder and chief executive.

Key facts

Founded: 2015 (company statement) Legal name: Wazuh, Inc. People: More than 200 team members; Santiago Bassett, Founder and CEO Customers: More than 100 thousand enterprise users, per its home page (company statement) Products or Services: Wazuh XDR, Wazuh SIEM, Wazuh Cloud, professional support, consulting, training courses Pricing: Platform free and open source; cloud, support and training are paid services Website: wazuh.com