Alert triage and incident drills for beginners

If you’re new, how are you practicing incident response and monitoring security events, not just memorizing terms? In my SOC we run a 45-minute phishing tabletop every Tuesday and a 30-minute daily review of the last 24 hours of auth logs in Elastic for anomalous MFA failures; I can share a lightweight playbook and alert-triage checklist you can adapt to a home lab — what constraints are you working with?

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I do a daily “10‑alert burn‑down” in Elastic: seed detections with Atomic Red Team (GitHub - redcanaryco/atomic-red-team: Small and highly portable detection tests based on MITRE's ATT&CK.), replay two atoms, then time‑box 20 minutes to triage and write a 3‑line note — IR push‑ups. Minor caveat to your “auth logs” focus: add DNS and process‑create so you don’t miss lateral hints — could you share that lightweight playbook?

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