Network & Security Home Lab:

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Posted May 20, 2024

Part 1 - Introduction

This series was inspired and follows a similar structure to David Varghese’s blog guide. However, I did my best to put my own spin on the home lab guide.

Item Overview

  • PFsense (Firewall & Router)
  • Parrot linux
  • Cyber Control Range
  • Malware Analysis Lab (Windows & Linux)
  • Security Virtual Machines (DFIR & SIEM)
  • Active Directory Lab
  • Windows 7 or 10 host OS (standalone from home and business os)
  • 64-bit multi-threaded CPU (minimum 4 cores) with Virtualization Support enabled
  • 16GB RAM
  • 500gb - 1TB Free disk space

You should check if virtualization is enabled right now, by pressing Shift>Control>Esc to open Task Manager. Under the Performance tab you can see if virtualization is enabled

taskm

You should also already have VC++ 2019 Redistributable installed as well.

You can view a Virtualization Guide on this page.

In the next module, we will start with the installation and configuration of pfSense.

Home Lab Part 2

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