Cybersecurity-HomeLab

About Me

Hi! I’m Day.

Cloud Threat Detection Engineer & College Student.

https://twitter.com/DayCyberwox

You can also check out my Youtube for a visual step by step guide to this process: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDqMNdDvMsRkmtiKcZwbhOz7MeLQE0r3G

For questions and help with the lab, you can join my discord server: https://discord.gg/QWW2wSdDmD

This Project

This is a instructional step by step process to building a functional Cybersecurity Homelab for offensive and defensive security.

My purpose for this lab is to learn more about Security Monitoring and Detection Engineering.

Hardware

This lab will be running on a Server/PC specifically built for the purpose of labbing.

PC Parts: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/xfBQXv

Virtual Machines

This lab consists of:

~ Kali: This is the offensive machine that will be used to propagate different forms of attacks.

~ pfsense: This will be the firewall for controlling inbound and outbound traffic, only accessible and visible in the VM private network.

~ Security Onion: This will be the all-in-one IDS, Security Monitoring and Log Management solution.

~ Splunk: This is an additional SIEM that will be used in addition and comparison to Kibana on Security Onion.

~ Windows DC: This is a windows domain controller that will have two windows machines connected to it.

~ Windows 7 & Windows XP: These windows machine will vary based on individual needs.

~ Ubuntu/Centos/Metasploitable/DVWA/Vulnhub machines: All these are potential linux machines that can be added to the network for exploitation, detection, or monitoring purposes.

Network Design