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Hands-on write-ups from my cybersecurity homelab: what I built, how I tested it, real results, and what I learned. The sanitized configs are on GitHub at github.com/oemarino/homelab.
Hardening my homelab: 9 findings to 0
Greenbone found 6 Medium and 3 Low issues on my server. I fixed or contained every real one and proved the last one is a false positive.
Vulnerability management9 → 0real findings
Building a home SOC with Wazuh
I deployed Wazuh, attacked my own isolated lab, and wrote down what the SIEM caught, including the SQL injection it missed.
Detection & SIEM5710 → 5712brute-force correlation
Hosting a hardened website from home with zero open ports
This site runs on my homelab server, but my router has no port forward for it. Here’s the container, header and tunnel setup.
Secure hosting0 / 1,007IPv4 TCP ports open