Standing up a Security Operations Center doesn't require a Fortune 500 budget. With the right open-source tooling and a weekend, you can have a fully functional detection pipeline running on hardware you already own.
This guide walks through deploying Wazuh as your SIEM, Suricata for network intrusion detection, and Grafana for dashboards — all orchestrated with Docker Compose on a single machine.
By the end, you'll have real-time alerting on suspicious process execution, lateral movement indicators, and network anomalies — the same signals enterprise SOCs pay millions to detect.