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Building an Open SIEM From Scratch

I have used Elastic Stack few times whether in a Threat Hunting Lab or Detection & Behavior analysis contexts. This series of blogs is about sharing what I learned in the process.

Introduction

Building a SIEM based on open-sourced solutions can be particularly challenging but also much more fun. In this article series I will try to share how can we overcome some of the basic challenges that we may face during building such toolsets like:
  • Data normalization.
  • Event collection and processing.
  • Alerting : Time-based vs Event-Centric correlation
  • Visualizations and Dashboarding
  • SIEM metrics and reporting
I will be using the following tools:
  • Elastic Stack: Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats for collecting, processing, storing, and searching data.
  • OpenDistro for Elasticsearch plugins for Alerting and Security.
  • ElastAlert for additional alerting features