Research & Engineering Lab

Manu Cyber Lab

Manoj Chandran | Senior Security Engineer & Researcher

Focus Areas

🛡️ Detection Engineering

Validating enterprise endpoint detection coverage, telemetry analysis in EDR/Sysmon, and crafting durable detection rules.

⚔️ Adversary Emulation

Controlled purple-team execution, mapping threat actor behaviors to MITRE ATT&CK, and identifying defense blind spots.

🤖 AI & Security Automation

Building local LLM tooling, MCP server integrations, and agentic workflows to automate telemetry triage and analysis.

Featured Publication

In Progress

Build Your First Cybersecurity Lab

A comprehensive hands-on field guide covering the end-to-end journey from bare-metal virtualization to Active Directory attacks and enterprise SIEM detection engineering.

  • Lab Containment & Hypervisors
  • Active Directory & BadBlood
  • Sysmon & Event Log Auditing
  • Wazuh / Elastic SIEM Deployment
  • Atomic Red Team Emulation
  • Production-Ready Sigma Rules