LAB-WRITEUP

SOC L1 Home Lab: environment architecture

A light L1 lab: host, two endpoints, a collector. The data path matters more than the tool pile.

Tomek8 min readBEGINNER

The lab is not “have a SIEM”. The lab is walking:

event → log → detection → alert → triage → note

This is an educational lab and a portfolio write-up. It does not describe someone else’s SOC and it does not add metrics I did not measure.

Minimum

  • a host with virtualisation
  • Windows and Linux as sources
  • a place logs meet (Wazuh, or a conscious “not yet”)
  • one test event you can replay

MITRE ATT&CK mapping only helps when a concrete log covers a technique. Otherwise it is a sticker.

The build checklist lives in Resources. A paid product — if it ships — will be an extension, not a copy of that list.