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🧪 Offensive Security Home Lab – Kali Linux & Wazuh SIEM Setup

Start Date: 21 July 2025

Date Completed: 20 September 2025

Platform: VirtualBox

Operating Systems: Kali Linux 2025.2 (64-bit), Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

🔹 Overview

This lab simulates a corporate security environment designed for both offensive and defensive security testing.

• Kali Linux → Functions as an employee workstation and attacker machine, used for penetration testing, enumeration, and privilege escalation experiments.
• Ubuntu 22.04 → Hosts the Wazuh SIEM platform to collect, store, and analyze logs from endpoints, enabling real-time detection of malicious activity.
• Metasploitable 2 → Acts as a deliberately vulnerable target machine, providing a controlled environment to practice exploitation techniques and strengthen tool proficiency.

⚠️ Note: All testing was done in an isolated home lab or THM for educational purposes only.

🧱 Steps Taken to Complete the Project

1️⃣ Virtual Machine Configuration

Purpose: Establish isolated virtual environments for attacker and SIEM roles.