Building a SIEM-Style Threat Detection Dashboard Using ELK Stack and Docker

Building a SIEM-Style Threat Detection Dashboard Using ELK Stack and Docker In modern cybersecurity operations, centralized log collection and real-time visibility are essential for identifying suspicious behavior before it turns into a real incident. Security teams rely heavily on log analysis platforms to detect failed logins, brute-force attempts, abnormal DNS activity, and other indicators of compromise. To better understand how this works in practice, I built a SIEM-style threat detection lab using the ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) deployed with Docker. The goal of this project was to ingest logs, simulate attack patterns, and visualize security events through a dashboard that could support threat hunting and incident response. This hands-on project gave me practical exposure to: log ingestion and parsing dashboard creation in Kibana basic detection engineering attack simulation security monitoring workflows 🎯 Objectives: The main goals of this project were: Deploy