SIEM Deployment and Threat Hunting Basics with Wazuh and ELK

In an era of increasing digital vulnerabilities, organizations need real-time visibility into their infrastructure to detect and mitigate security threats. Setting up a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system is the first critical step toward proactive defense. This text-based course guides you through the foundational concepts of security monitoring, showing you how to deploy and configure a powerful open-source SIEM using Wazuh and the ELK Stack. You will transition from understanding basic security logs to actively analyzing system events and hunting for potential threats. What you'll learn: - Understand foundational SIEM concepts, log management, and threat hunting terminology. - Deploy Wazuh and the ELK Stack using modern containerized environments for local testing. - Configure security agents to collect, parse, and centralize logs from various endpoints. - Analyze system events and security alerts using Kibana dashboards. - Create custom detection rules to spot specific unauthorized activities and suspicious behaviors. - Apply modern security practices, including basic log ingestion patterns and Zero Trust observability principles. The course begins with essential security definitions and architectural overviews before stepping through configuration files, log pipeline setups, and practical threat hunting exercises. You will read detailed explanations, analyze configuration snippets, and practice building detection rules at your own pace. This course is designed for aspiring security analysts, IT administrators, and beginners curious about cybersecurity operations, requiring no prior experience with SIEM tools. Start your journey into security operations and build your first monitoring lab today.