Corelight Open NDR vs Wazuh

Corelight Open NDR turns network and cloud traffic into evidence for security operations. Its detection combines machine learning, behavioral analytics, curated signatures and threat intelligence, with real-time detection and anomaly explanations. Automated triage and integrated response workflows provide context for containing threats. The platform brings network security monitoring, intrusion detection, static file analysis and intelligent packet capture together. It handles network traffic, packets, flow logs, cloud network traffic, protocol logs and files. Deployment options include physical, software, virtual, cloud and flow-log sensors across on-premises, air-gapped, hybrid and multicloud environments. Cloud-native sensors support AWS, Azure and Google Cloud; software sensors support Linux-based systems. Physical and software sensors are built for environments at 100+ Gbps scale. Native integrations cover SIEM, XDR, SOAR and cloud platforms, including Splunk, CrowdStrike, Microsoft, Elastic and AWS. A Logs API and MCP server support programmatic access. Pricing is on request, with capacity-based licensing. Corelight serves large enterprises and government agencies in more than fifteen countries.

Wazuh unifies XDR and SIEM to analyze security data across endpoints, clouds, and networks for threat detection, incident response, and compliance work. Its rules identify errors, misconfigurations, malicious activity, and policy violations in operating system and application logs. File Integrity Monitoring tracks changes to content, permissions, ownership, and other file attributes. Vulnerability detection compares endpoint software inventories with updated CVE databases. Built-in active responses can take countermeasures, including blocking network access from a threat source. Wazuh can monitor AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Microsoft 365, and GitHub services, virtual machines, and activity. Its integrations guide also covers Elastic Stack, OpenSearch, Splunk, and Amazon Security Lake. Default rulesets provide mappings for PCI DSS, HIPAA, NIST 800-53, TSC, and GDPR, but those mappings do not themselves certify compliance. Wazuh runs on API, Linux, macOS, self-hosted, web, and Windows platforms. Its self-hosted open-source plan is free; paid plans start at $571 a month, and a 14-day trial is listed. Agents support Linux, Windows, macOS, Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX and require an average of 35 MB of RAM.