Detecting Phishing and Insider Threats Using Wazuh
Jun 03, 2026
Phishing and insider threats continue to pose significant, often overlapping risks in modern threat landscapes. Compromised credentials obtained through phishing campaigns or social engineering attacks can grant adversaries legitimate access, effectively converting external threats into insider risks. This convergence complicates detection, as malicious activity may closely mimic authorized user behavior. To address this challenge, security teams require a platform that can correlate events from multiple sources, including endpoints, users, and network activity. Security teams, therefore, need a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platform that can collect and correlate activity across endpoints, users, and network sources. A SIEM platform enables the aggregation and correlation of data from multiple sources, helping analysts uncover suspicious patterns that would otherwise go unnoticed. Phishing attacks Phishing attacks remain among the most effective techniques us...
