HELK VS DetectionLab

Utilizing that api and juniper notebooks is exactly why Hunting Elk is the way it from my understanding.

So you can actual do both defensive while practicing offensive. If you can set up a lab system with an attacker, for ease using kali, and defensive systems like a single windows box, or you can go balls to the wall if you have the resources and set up an AD environment and then ship all the logs to a SIEM system like Splunk or HELK (https://github.com/Cyb3rWard0g/HELK). Building off the environment you can also include Mordor (https://github.com/UraSecTeam/mordor)

HELK + Mordor combo https://github.com/Cyb3rWard0g/HELK

On a side note - I somehow have the feeling that you are trying to recreate https://github.com/Cyb3rWard0g/HELK

You can find tools that leverage ELK that aren't necessarily plugins. SIEM looks like it has some free component to it, too: https://github.com/Cyb3rWard0g/HELK https://www.elastic.co/blog/elastic-siem-free-open

HELK can help for the SIEM and detection part

MISP is a Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP), not a hunting platform. That would be something like HELK

I would tell someone they should use a cloud lab like Clong's "Detection Lab" which gives them not only the security aspect but the cloud and engineering aspects as well.

Detection Lab Link: https://github.com/clong/DetectionLab

Not sure what your goal with splunk is but I'd recommend Detection lab! Once you get the pre reqs setup, building and tearing down is super easy and you get a pre-baked ad environment to generate logs for you. https://github.com/clong/DetectionLab

I found a great starting point at the repo of DetectionLab : https://github.com/clong/DetectionLab

While it's true what most are saying, that you don't need a powerful system to learn hacking....... You DO have a valid point that a powerful system enables things a weaker system may not. For example with 64GB of RAM you can run a full network lab simulation such as https://github.com/clong/DetectionLab additionally a solid high end graphics card will let you run things like hashcat a lot faster. In theory you could make a rainbow table. You still need a lot of time to understand all the basics but yeah there's a few cool things you can do with more power it's not ENTIRELY unneeded. I wish I knew about the local defcon group long ago. They're welcoming and some have capture the flags you can play. Understand the various job roles there are in security and figure out which one you like. You get paid to do specific things not just learn about hacking.

Github DetectioLab