How to Build a Home SOC Lab with Free Tools
A beginner friendly plan for a home SOC lab using Windows evaluation builds, Sysmon, a free SIEM and Atomic Red Team, plus how to turn it into interview evidence.
7 Nov 20267 min read
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A beginner friendly plan for a home SOC lab using Windows evaluation builds, Sysmon, a free SIEM and Atomic Red Team, plus how to turn it into interview evidence.
A step by step way to decode an encoded PowerShell command, check its parent process and related activity, and decide whether to close or escalate.
Use Sentinel watchlists to suppress known scanners, flag VIP accounts and keep exclusions out of your rule logic, with ready KQL for each pattern.