Windows telemetry that matters — hands-on guide to Sysmon + Sigma + Atomic Red Team (Home SOC edition)
This article is a complete, step-by-step piece you can publish on your blog. It covers design, implementation, detection engineering ( Sigma → pySigma ), safe validation with Atomic Red Team , ATT&CK mapping, tuning, and a compact incident-response runbook. I cite primary references throughout and list every source at the end. TL;DR (what you’ll end up with) A Windows VM running Sysmon with a community-grade config, forwarded into a lightweight SIEM stack (Elastic / Splunk / Wazuh options), Sigma detection rules converted with pySigma , and safe Atomic Red Team tests used to validate detections and iterate on tuning. This closes the learning loop: generate telemetry → detect → validate → tune. ( Microsoft Learn , GitHub ) Who this is for & prerequisites Audience: intermediate beginners to defenders — you know basic Windows admin and can run a VM. Prerequisites: A Windows 10/11 (or Server ) VM for the endpoint under test (isolated network). A second VM running ...
