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SIEM (startrek.website)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I am studying for my Network+ and my Sec+ hoping to shadow our Cyber Sec guy at work.

I want to set up a SIEM on my home network so I can be used to it's operations and how it works by the time I start messing with Pentesting stuff. Then I'm going to use it to try and track myself when I pentest myself.

I was looking into Graylog or Security Onion since they seem to have decent documentation (and I can find videos on how to set them up which is nice).

I was recommended building my own ELK stack and doing everything manually for maximum learning potential. Which I understand why this is a good idea, but I think I'd rather be as close to "baby's first SIEM" as possible or at least have a robust how-to guide.

What do you suggest?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Grafana Loki is very light on resources and simple to deploy in most cases.

Combine with Sigma detection rules (converted to LogQL queries using the Loki plugin) and you're off to the races.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I would look at CISA’s Logging Made Easy project, which is based on Wazuh and Elastic with Kibana for visualization and dashboards.

https://github.com/cisagov/LME

[–] litchralee 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

SEIM? Do you mean SIEM, Secure Information and Event Management?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yes! Gods damn it. I had that up an everything on my second monitor.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You can edit your posts, you know :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Thanks! I'm still on reddit brain.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Just a suggestion but take a look at this list… all of them should be either open source or at least free (trials, lite versions, etc.).

Find out what you use at work and see if there’s a trial version or if they use open source.

If not most of these tools are known and you may be able to find help online (forums, Lemmy, Reddit, etc.).

https://www.dnsstuff.com/free-siem-tools

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Wazuh is popular. It's in use by name brand companies, FOSS and relatively turnkey.

Graylog is also a popular option.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I suggest skipping the devops part and instead starting with a course. If you go with setting it up you will probably spend 95% of the time doing devops and not security (which is usually the client of the devops team that maintains the SIEM)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Got any recs? I can generally talk my company into paying for most anything education wise, but Udemy style courses work with my ADHD the best.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Nothing that comes to mind, but simple search of the SIEM you are going to use in youtube and pirate bay should provide some good starters

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Wazuh if you want a product instead of building it from scratch.

I'd give Greenbone a try too, I think it's most analogous to Nessus.