Building a Cloud-Based SOC Lab with Microsoft Sentinel (Azure)

Building a Security Operations Center lab in Microsoft Azure to gain hands-on experience with the detection and analysis workflow of a real SOC environment.

Building a Security Operations Center lab in Microsoft Azure to gain hands-on experience with the detection and analysis workflow of a real SOC environment.

A stable, actively maintained media platform running since mid-2025, with integrated analytics, email marketing, and layered security (platform-level WAF/intrusion detection plus application-level brute-force protection).

Fully deployed, secured personal domain running on AWS Lightsail, with Cloudflare-managed DNS, email routing, and end-to-end HTTPS enforced at both the server and browser level. Gained hands-on experience with DNS record types, certificate authorities and the TLS handshake, and diagnosing infrastructure issues layer by layer rather than guessing at fixes.

Working port scanner with IP and port validation. Demonstrated skills in Python including the use of while and for loops, function creation and implementation, if, elif, else logic, importing standard Python libraries, etc. Demonstrated active and working knowledge of TCP, IP connections with socket module.