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Cybersecurity & Wazuh for a Hotel MSSP

Your course home. Ten short lessons that take you from "what is a SIEM?" to onboarding a real hotel as a monitoring client.

The mission Build an MSSP that monitors security for multiple hotel clients using Wazuh โ€” confidently detecting, triaging, and proving value (incl. PCI-DSS). See the full mission.
๐Ÿ“– Glossary โš™๏ธ Config cheat-sheet ๐Ÿ—๏ธ Architecture blueprint ๐Ÿ”— Resources ๐ŸŽฏ Mission

    Part I โ€” Fundamentals

  1. From event to alert The SIEM pipeline โ€” the one mental model the whole business runs on.
  2. Wazuh's four parts Agent ยท server ยท indexer ยท dashboard โ€” and how data flows through them.
  3. Part II โ€” Hands on

  4. Stand up your Wazuh server A working single-node deployment you can log into.
  5. First agent & first detection Deploy an agent and watch Wazuh catch a real attack.
  6. How detection really works Decoders, rules, levels, and writing custom detections with wazuh-logtest.
  7. Part III โ€” Running many hotels

  8. One group per hotel Agent groups & centralized config โ€” clean separation that scales.
  9. Walls between clients RBAC & dashboard tenants โ€” each hotel sees only its own data.
  10. Part IV โ€” The hospitality domain

  11. The hotel attack surface PMS, POS, guest Wi-Fi โ€” the crown jewels and how they're hit.
  12. PCI-DSS for hotels What card-taking hotels owe, and exactly where Wazuh helps.
  13. Part V โ€” Delivering the service

  14. Onboard your first hotel The full end-to-end runbook โ€” everything tied together.
  15. Part VI โ€” Operating your live setup

  16. Switch on Wazuh's capabilities Terminal guide: enable FIM, SCA, vuln detection & active response on a running deployment.
  17. Part VII โ€” Into production

  18. The whole system, in production Every component mapped to a hotel-security job, the full data flow, and the go-live checklist.
How to use this course Lessons are short by design โ€” working memory is small. Do them in order, and answer every quiz from memory (the effort is what makes it stick). Come back to the glossary whenever a term is fuzzy. And remember: I'm your teacher โ€” ask me to go deeper, harder, or more hands-on on anything.

Wisdom comes from the real world: validate what you learn against the Wazuh community and a real pilot hotel.