🛡️ CYBER DEFENSE LAB

Complete Project Implementation Guide

From Zero to Production-Grade SOC Platform

🎯 PROJECT LAB TO COVER THE FOLLOWING RESPONSIBILITIES

🔍 SIEM Implementation & Optimization

Security Information and Event Management

Elastic Stack Kubernetes

⚡ Development of Detection Rules

Use case development and threat detection

MITRE ATT&CK 3 Rules

🔌 Connecting Event Sources & Parsers

Log source integration and data normalization

Elastic Agent Log Collection

🛡️ Vulnerability Management

Security assessment and patch management

Trivy Container Scanning

💻 Endpoint Detection & Response

EDR management and threat analysis

Elastic Agent Real-time Monitoring

🌐 Threat Intelligence

IOC collection and threat analysis

52,460 IOCs URLHaus

🚨 Incident Response

Security incident handling and automation

Automation K8s CronJobs

🔬 Analysis & Assessment

Attack simulation and detection validation

Attack Simulation Detection Testing

🔧 PHASE 1: Environment Setup & Prerequisites

Step 1: Tool Installation

brew install aquasecurity/trivy/trivy
brew install falco
pip3 install requests

Step 2: Project Structure Creation

cd ~/Desktop
mkdir "Cyber-Defense-Lab"
cd "Cyber-Defense-Lab"
mkdir kubernetes kubernetes/elastic-stack kubernetes/detection-engine kubernetes/incident-response detection-rules threat-intelligence attack-simulations dashboards docs docs/images

Step 3: Kubernetes Configuration

kubectl config use-context docker-desktop
kubectl apply -f kubernetes/namespace.yaml

��️ PHASE 2: SIEM Platform Deployment

Step 4: Elasticsearch Deployment

kubectl apply -f kubernetes/elastic-stack/elasticsearch.yaml
kubectl get pods -n security-lab -w

Step 5: Kibana Deployment

kubectl apply -f kubernetes/elastic-stack/kibana.yaml
kubectl port-forward -n security-lab service/kibana 5601:5601
# Access: http://localhost:5601

Step 6: EDR Implementation

kubectl apply -f kubernetes/elastic-stack/elastic-agent.yaml

🔐 PHASE 3: Security Operations Implementation

Step 7: Detection Rule Development

Created 3 MITRE ATT&CK mapped detection rules:

Step 8: Threat Intelligence Integration

cd threat-intelligence
python3 urlhaus-integration.py
# Collected 52,460 IOCs

Step 9: Vulnerability Management

chmod +x vulnerability-scan.sh
./vulnerability-scan.sh
# Generated trivy-kibana-scan.json

Step 10: Incident Response Automation

kubectl apply -f kubernetes/incident-response/trivy-cronjob.yaml

Step 11: Attack Simulation & Testing

python3 attack-simulations/scenario-1-recon.py

📊 PHASE 4: Visualization & Professional Documentation

Step 12: Dashboard Development

Created interactive dashboards:

Step 13: Security Configuration Enhancement

kubectl apply -f kubernetes/elastic-stack/elasticsearch-config.yaml
kubectl rollout restart deployment/elasticsearch -n security-lab

Step 14: Deployment Automation

Created automation scripts:

✅ FINAL VERIFICATION & VALIDATION

Step 15: System Verification

kubectl get all -n security-lab
./deployment-summary.sh

Step 16: Component Testing

# Kibana Access: http://localhost:5601
# Security App Testing
# Dashboard Validation

🔧 TROUBLESHOOTING & VERIFICATION COMMANDS

Kubernetes Issues

kubectl get nodes
kubectl config get-contexts
kubectl config use-context docker-desktop

Elastic Stack Issues

kubectl get pods -n security-lab
kubectl logs -n security-lab deployment/elasticsearch
kubectl port-forward -n security-lab service/kibana 5601:5601