From Default Installation to Secure Windows Infrastructure: A Hands-On Hardening Guide

From Default Installation to Secure Windows Infrastructure: A Hands-On Hardening Guide

August 10th 2026 / Ambassadors
By Vladislav Kharlamov / LinkedIn

This article follows the hardening process from technical validation to staged corporate deployment. I use a controlled reference environment to demonstrate the behavior of the controls before they are considered for production. The environment is intentionally compact, but it represents the roles and trust boundaries found in a larger Windows estate: Active Directory, member servers, user endpoints, privileged administration, centralized policy, and security monitoring.

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Wazuh 4.14.x with Bbot 3.x for External Attack Surface Management

Wazuh 4.14.x with Bbot 3.x for External Attack Surface Management

August 7th 2026 / Ambassadors
By Hamza Jameel / Medium

This guide walks through integrating BBOT, an open-source recursive internet scanner, with Wazuh XDR to provide continuous external attack surface monitoring. By the end, Wazuh will automatically discover and alert on subdomains, open ports, technologies, web endpoints, and vulnerabilities across your external-facing assets.

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Ingesting Filescan.io Threat Intelligence into Wazuh

Ingesting Filescan.io Threat Intelligence into Wazuh

August 6th 2026 / Ambassadors
By Moiz Uddin Rafay / Medium

Turning IOC Feeds into Actionable SOC Detections.
How automated threat-intelligence ingestion helps SOC analysts detect malicious hashes, IP addresses, domains, URLs, and email indicators in near real time

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Wazuh 4.14.7 Complete Technical Report: All Changes from 4.14.6 to 4.14.7

Wazuh 4.14.7 Complete Technical Report: All Changes from 4.14.6 to 4.14.7

August 6th 2026 / Ambassadors
By Aram Evinyan / LinkedIn

Wazuh 4.14.7 is a cumulative maintenance release over 4.14.6. It contains 3 newfeature/enhancement items and 11 resolved issues. All facts in this section are taken directly from the official Wazuh release notes and the corresponding GitHub pull requests; every issue ID is
hyperlinked to its source.

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