This blog post is part of a series on setting up Elastic SIEM for home and small businesses, focusing on installing and configuring Auditbeat and Packetbeat on macOS systems. The author provides detailed instructions for deploying these Beats using Homebrew, emphasizing the importance of configuring specific data collection for user activities, processes, and network data. The post highlights the challenges of integrating the GeoIP ingest processor due to issues with handling arrays of IP addresses, suggesting temporary workarounds and advising on logging configurations to troubleshoot data transmission errors. Root ownership of files is recommended to prevent unauthorized access or modification, and the setup process involves configuring network interfaces and protocols for Packetbeat, as well as ensuring the Beats are correctly installed, configured, and started. The series aims to guide users in developing a simple yet effective security solution, with future posts covering data analysis in Elastic SIEM and Elastic Maps.