📂 Series: SIEM Deployment Alright, let's talk shop. After over a decade in the trenches – from building out SOCs from scratch to wrangling SIEMs like Splunk, QRadar, and Microsoft Sentinel in some seriously high-stakes environments – I've seen a lot of tools come and go. Some are brilliant, some are overhyped, and some just… work. Wazuh falls firmly into that last category, with a generous helping of "brilliant" thrown in, especially when you consider its open-source nature. I've been in situations where the budget was tighter than a drum, but the need for deep host visibility, file integrity monitoring (FIM), and security configuration assessment (SCA) was absolutely critical. That's where Wazuh shines. It's not just a log aggregator; it’s a full-blown host intrusion detection system (HIDS) that can give you insights into endpoint activity that even some commercial EDRs struggle to match without a hefty price tag. Today, I want to walk you through deploying Wazuh using its all-in-one (AIO) model. Why AIO?…