Running a Personal SOC: Bringing Production Security Practices Home (opens in new tab)

At work, nobody questions why we have logging, alerting, and a daily look at what changed overnight. At home, the same network runs a NAS, a media stack, Home Assistant, and a handful of containers. And for years my only "security monitoring" was noticing something was broken. So I built myself a small, read-only security operations setup for the homelab: a daily audit script and a cross-domain digest agent that correlates it with everything else running on the network. Nothing here is novel ...