Reducing shadow IT visibility gaps with Wazuh
Source Bleeping Computer
Description
Shadow IT refers to hardware, software, and services operating outside the visibility or approval of IT and security teams, creating security blind spots. Wazuh is an open source security platform that helps organizations reduce these visibility gaps by collecting detailed inventory data from monitored endpoints and correlating it with vulnerability and policy information. It supports agent-based and agentless monitoring, including for devices that cannot run agents. Wazuh provides centralized dashboards for visibility into unmanaged endpoints, unauthorized software, browser extensions, and services. It also enables detection and removal of unauthorized applications through custom rules and active response scripts. This approach addresses the limitations of network discovery scans, which only identify devices responding during scan windows, leaving many assets invisible. Overall, Wazuh helps organizations improve asset visibility and reduce risks associated with shadow IT.