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Build an enterprise-grade home security system in a weekend

There are people probing your network right now, whether you run a business or just a house full of smart devices. This is the exact setup a security engineer built to catch them, running on open-source tools and one enterprise router you buy once.

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Buddy RikardForward deployed engineer · ex-cybersecurity
Dylan WatkinsHost · the podcast
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The step-by-step guide and the self-hosted cyber lab are ready. Follow the guide, deploy the lab, and you'll have alerts landing on your phone this weekend.

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What you get

Everything to run it yourself

No black box. A guide that walks you through every step, the lab that deploys the whole stack, and the exact hardware to run it on.

01

The step-by-step guide

A PDF that takes you from an empty mini PC to a live pipeline: the network setup, the deploy, the detection rule, and every real-world gotcha already solved.

02

The self-hosted cyber lab

A zip you unzip and deploy: Splunk (the SIEM), MISP (threat intelligence), and Buddy's n8n workflows, stood up with one command.

03

The router that runs it

The whole thing sits behind one ~$300 UniFi enterprise router. The guide shows the exact model and where to buy it. You own the hardware, once.

How it works

Your router already sees the threats. This gives it a voice.

Your router feeds a SIEM, the SIEM runs detection rules on a timer, and n8n turns anything notable into a plain-english alert on your phone, and a threat-intel record you can review later. You do nothing until it buzzes.

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Buy it once, ~$300

Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Router 7

A desktop all-in-one: router, Wi-Fi 7, and the security logging this build runs on. You buy the router yourself, the guide links you straight to it.

  • Wi-Fi 7, tri-band, 2.5 GbE plus a 10G SFP+ uplink
  • The Activity Logging / SIEM export the whole pipeline depends on
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Your attackers are automated. Your home probably isn't watched. Change that this weekend.

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