At Home Detection Engineering Lab for Beginners

This blog post provides a step-by-step guide to building a small SIEM lab with VirtualBox, a Wazuh OVA manager, and a Windows endpoint, then using Atomic Red Team’s Invoke-Atomic to simulate MITRE ATT&CK techniques (e.g., credential dumping) and validate detections by observing registry integrity alerts in Wazuh—illustrating how to identify detection gaps and tune rules for better visibility.