CITADEL SOC

Open Source Security Operations Center — Public Administration

Systems Operational
Mission Statement

Defending Public Infrastructure
Through Open Intelligence

CITADEL is a fully open-source Security Operations Center platform purpose-built for public administration. Combining real-time threat detection, automated incident response, threat intelligence sharing and forensic analysis into one integrated platform — built on transparency, sovereignty and community trust. This soc.trials.vip deployment is the second-generation CITADEL platform: fully automated and replicable through GitLab CI/CD pipelines, with platform-wide Keycloak single sign-on and Wazuh agents auto-enrolled on every node.

4
Cluster Nodes
13
Active Services
GitOps
Replicable Deployment
100%
Open Source

Platform Services

Management Services

Alert Flow Architecture

Wazuh Agents Wazuh Manager Shuffle SOAR IRIS Case Cortex Analysis MISP Intel Response
Security events from monitored endpoints flow through Wazuh for detection and correlation. High-severity alerts trigger automated Shuffle workflows that create DFIR-IRIS cases, enrich observables via Cortex analyzers, cross-reference MISP threat intelligence, and execute active response actions — all without manual intervention.

Platform Roadmap

Phase 1 — Complete
Core Infrastructure

Hybrid x86/ARM64 k3s cluster, Longhorn distributed storage, HTTPS ingress with Let’s Encrypt, GitLab CI deployment pipelines, Wazuh agents on all nodes.

Phase 2 — Complete
SOC Services

DFIR-IRIS, Cortex, Shuffle, MISP, full Wazuh stack deployed and accessible. Password rotation complete.

Phase 3 — Complete
Identity & SSO

Keycloak IAM deployed. OIDC SSO live across Wazuh, DFIR-IRIS, Cortex, MISP and Shuffle. Centralised realm citadel-soc.

Phase 4 — Active
Automation Pipelines

Wazuh→IRIS alert pipeline. Cortex analyzers configured. Shuffle playbooks for automated triage.

Phase 5 — Upcoming
Threat Intel Feeds

MISP community feeds. IRIS↔MISP bidirectional sync. CIS benchmark remediation.

Phase 6 — Upcoming
Production Hardening

HA setup, encrypted backups, network segmentation, audit logging, security baseline 90%+.