How a SIEM Works: Agents, Decoders and Alerts

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How logs from hundreds of machines reach one screen, how plain text becomes searchable fields, and how to read one alert record from top to bottom.

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Updated 2026-11-01

Hands-on cybersecurity training and labs in real cloud environments.

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