Philip Zangara

SOC Analyst and Detection Engineer

Category: Tutorial

  • Building a Threat Intelligence Dashboard in Splunk with AlienVault OTX

    For the ECA Cyber Range Splunk Security Dashboard Challenge, I built a CTI dashboard that correlates AlienVault OTX threat intelligence against live Sysmon endpoint telemetry. The idea is simple. OTX publishes malicious IPs, domains, file hashes, and adversary TTPs. Sysmon captures everything happening on your Windows endpoints. The dashboard joins those two data sources and…

  • Installing a NIDS on a Raspberry PI 4 with Splunk Dashboard

    Installing a NIDS on a Raspberry PI 4 with Splunk Dashboard

    Over the weekend, I noticed I had a spare Raspberry Pi lying around (actually, several PIs) and installed Suricata as a NIDS on it. This is a fresh install of Ubuntu 25.10 on a Raspberry PI 4B 4 GB sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade sudo apt install -y suricata suricata -V Edit /etc/suricata/suricata.json Put…