The ‘Free’ Open-Source Security Tool Is Secretly Sabotaging Your Infrastructure
Open-source security tools like Wazuh are often pitched as ‘free’ enterprise-grade solutions, but the reality is far more insidious. High operational complexity, endless rule-tuning, and specialized engineering time turn these tools into expensive liabilities. When teams lack the capacity to maintain them, these defensive assets become neglected blind spots that actively degrade an organization’s security posture.