SIEM: articles and guides

SIEM vs SOAR side by side: a comparison table of what each does, a which-do-you-need decision guide, and where Splunk, XDR and MDR fit. Plain English.

A plain-English walkthrough of AegisLoop / ARTEX-KO Plus, an open-source (AGPL-3.0) AI-agent security-validation platform: how it goes from an authorized-scope finding to attack/detection scenarios, defense validation against real logs, incident investigation, and autonomous Splunk threat-hunting — and the guardrails that keep it a blue-team tool.

An intrusion detection system (IDS) monitors traffic or hosts for attacks and raises alerts. The types (NIDS, HIDS), detection methods, and IDS vs IPS.

CISA’s 2026 guidance recommends honeytokens, canary accounts and decoy systems to catch living-off-the-land attacks. A deployment roadmap with Sigma rules.