UTMStack vs Wazuh

UTMStack is an open-source unified threat management platform that combines SIEM and XDR. It provides log management and correlation, threat detection and response, threat intelligence, alert investigation, file classification, SOC AI-powered analysis, and compliance capabilities. Its modules include vulnerability management, access-rights auditing, automated incident response, endpoint protection, dark-web monitoring, and file tracking. The platform correlates data during ingestion before indexing to support real-time detection and reduce alert noise. Deployment options include an ISO, Ubuntu installer, cloud SaaS tenant, virtualized environments, physical servers, and public-cloud virtual machines. Its v11 guide is designed for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and also notes Red Hat support. The free trial is free; Essential costs $238.80 a month, billed monthly, and supports 25–50 devices on average with 150 GB HOT storage. Deployments above 500 data sources or devices require secondary worker nodes for horizontal scaling.

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.