Documenting my hands-on journey in building a real-world SOC environment — SIEM setup, log analysis, threat detection, and everything in between.
Building an isolated VMware cybersecurity environment for Active Directory, Windows event logging, Wazuh SIEM, and hands-on detection validation. Phase 1 focuses on VMnet1 host-only networking, static IPv4/DNS configuration, and connectivity testing.
Tools: VMware Workstation · Windows Server 2022 · PowerShell · Ubuntu · Kali Linux · Wazuh (planned)
View HomeLab-V2 on GitHub →I'm souley393, a CompTIA Security+ certified learner with an associate degree in Computer Science, building a home SOC lab from the ground up. This blog documents the real process — the configs that break, the errors that don't make sense, and the moments when things finally click.
My focus is blue team — log analysis, SIEM engineering, threat detection, and security monitoring. Everything here is hands-on, self-built, and learned the hard way.
No fluff. Just lab notes.