https://byte-x-bit.com/blog/why-i-built-a-real-soc.html

Part 0 of a series on building an enterprise-grade Security Operations Center at home — from

open-source foundations and custom tooling.

Most "home lab" security projects end the same way: you install Security Onion, watch the dashboard

light up with alerts for a week, feel like you've built something real, and then never look at it