Lakshan Sameera (Sameer)·May 18Why SIEM Alerts Fail: The Gap Between Detection Logic and Real SOC TriageMost SIEM alerts do not fail because the SIEM is weak.
Lakshan Sameera (Sameer)·Jan 14Building an AWS GuardDuty SIEM Pipeline into Splunk (S3 + SQS) + SOC DashboardAlright, so AWS GuardDuty is cool. It detects stuff. But when you actually look at it… it just throws JSON at you and says “good luck bro”…
Lakshan Sameera (Sameer)·Jan 7Building a SOC from Scratch: The Part Tutorials Never ShowSalaams!! I haven’t written on Medium in a bit, mostly because SOC work in the real world isn’t as clean as the labs make it look.
Lakshan Sameera (Sameer)·Sep 10, 2025I Built a Global Threat Intel Lab From Scratch (Then Deleted Half of It by Accident)What if I told you that you could build an enterprise-grade threat intelligence platform… for free? No six-figure license fees, no…
InAWS in Plain EnglishbyLakshan Sameera (Sameer)·Aug 19, 2025How I Built My Cloud Security Learning Path in Azure (Beginner-Friendly) — Part 2When I first touched Azure, I felt the same overwhelm I did with AWS. Hundreds of services, endless dashboards, and steep learning curves..A response icon1A response icon1
InAWS in Plain EnglishbyLakshan Sameera (Sameer)·Aug 16, 2025How I Built My Cloud Security Learning Path in 2025 (Beginner-Friendly) — Part 1How I went from overwhelmed by AWS to building real security projects step by step
InAWS in Plain EnglishbyLakshan Sameera (Sameer)·Aug 2, 2025AI Meets Cloud Security: How I Automated AWS GuardDuty Alerts with Slack, Lambda, and Bedrock AIIt Started with a GuardDuty Alert: How I Built an AI-Driven Threat Response System
InAWS in Plain EnglishbyLakshan Sameera (Sameer)·Jul 20, 2025I hacked my own AWS cloud -legally.I built a live attack lab with AWS + Wazuh, and here’s everything that broke (and how I fixed it).
Lakshan Sameera (Sameer)·Feb 24, 2025Security Operations — Network Intrusion Analysis and Detection for DevonCinemaSecurity Incident Analysis Report
Lakshan Sameera (Sameer)·Jan 26, 2025Unveiling OSSEC HIDS: Detecting the EternalBlue ExploitationIn this blog, we’ll take you through a hands-on project where I exploited the EternalBlue vulnerability and monitored the attack using…