Building the Ultimate Cybersecurity Lab and Cyber Range

Course details

Take your first step to building your very own cybersecurity lab and prepare for the future of cybersecurity. This course provides a comprehensive guide for those beginning their journey in penetration testing, exploit development, or malware reverse engineering. Learn how to build your own virtualized, physical, or cloud-based environment to practice your skills in a safe ecosystem.

Learning objectives
Build virtual, physical, or cloud-based cybersecurity labs.
Use tools like Vagrant, Terraform, and Ansible to automate complex and repetitive tasks.
Practice safe and refine a variety of offensive and defensive cybersecurity techniques.
Get skillset to deploy and manage secure environments on various platforms and cloud services.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Introduction

Lesson 1 - Introduction to Cyber Ranges and Starting a Home Lab

02 - Lesson 1 - Introduction to cyber ranges and starting a home lab
03 - Introducing cyber ranges
04 - Building a home lab and typical hardware requirements
05 - Building a lab for ethical hacking, bug bounties, and penetration testing
06 - Most common Linux distributions
07 - Introducing WebSploit Labs
08 - Building labs for incident response, threat hunting, and digital forensics

Lesson 2 - Building Scalable Lab Infrastructures

09 - Lesson 2 - Building scalable lab infrastructures
10 - Building your own private cloud with OpenStack
11 - Introducing Proxmox and deploying VMs and containers
12 - Installing Proxmox featuring advanced deployments and clustering

Lesson 3 - Surveying Lab Requirements for Wi-Fi and IoT Hacking

13 - Lesson 3 - Surveying lab requirements for Wi-Fi and IoT hacking
14 - Hardware requirements for Wi-Fi hacking
15 - Hardware requirements for IoT hacking
16 - Using Linux Kernel modules to build a wireless hacking lab without the need of physical adapters

Lesson 4 - Building Your Lab in Cloud Environments

17 - Lesson 4 - Building your lab in cloud environments
18 - Building a lab in AWS
19 - Building an Active Directory hacking lab in Azure
20 - Building your lab with AI and interacting with hundreds of APIs

Lesson 5 - Automating Lab Deployments and Tasks

21 - Lesson 5 - Automating lab deployments and tasks
22 - Using Vagrant
23 - Using Ansible
24 - Using Terraform

Lesson 6 - Building Labs for Malware Analysis

25 - Lesson 6 - Building labs for malware analysis
26 - Best practices when handling and detonating malware for analysis
27 - Creating sandboxes for malware analysis

Lesson 7 - Introducing Honeypots and Honeynets

28 - Lesson 7 - Introducing honeypots and honeynets
29 - Comparing honeypots and honeynets
30 - Building a honeypot and honeynets on-premises and in the cloud

Summary

31 - Summary