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Home Lab 1

Home Lab 1

Cyber Security Virtual Lab

After passing my security+ exam, now I am planning to doing a home lab setup but mostly using virtual machine and not like real hardware (Too costly). For this home lab setup, I am following this
LS111 Cyber Security Education
tutorial on YouTube.

In this lab, we will get skills & experience like :

  • Hands on networking skills
  • Hands on system administration skills
  • Virtualization configuration experience
  • Pentesting skills
  • System/Device Hardening
  • Safe and controlled environment Since this tutorial is 3 years old, I might face lots of problems, errors but hopefully I will be able to finish through all the setups, configurations, and challenges

The Scenario

. Contracted to Morgan Maxwell Real Estate to overhaul their IT infrastructure and systems. · Currently have 50 staff connected to a workgroup network, no central file shares or storage, no backups, no monitoring or AV, no user management. . Mr Maxwell, the Principle Agent, has become concerned about this and has requested that we centralize IT resources, data and user management, so he has better control of his resources. . He is also concerned about cybersecurity and has read a lot about Ransomware, and wants us to harden, monitor, and defend his network.

The Lab Topology

Things we will setup as each episodes

  1. Opnsense Firewall installation in Virtual Lab
  2. Suricata IDS/IPS installation on Opnsense
  3. Opnsense Web Filtering/Proxy Configuration
  4. Opnsense Firewall High Availability (HA), CARP, pfSync Config
  5. Opnsense Firewall Multi-WAN Failover and Load Balancer
  6. Opnsense NGFW features with Zenarmor
  7. Intro to SOC (Security Operations Center)
  8. Wazuh SIEM & XDR
  9. The Hive, Cortex & MISP Installation using docker compose
  10. Enable Cortex Analyzers
  11. Integrate Wazuh & TheHive
  12. Wazuh SEIM & Zenarmor NGFW Integration

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