🚀 A Practical Start to Security
Build a Cybersecurity Homelab
Homelabs give you a practical way to apply what you learn in books, online courses, or certifications. Homelabs are practical and flexible. With a curated environment, you can simulate a cyberattack, emulate parts of a business environment or practice your engineering skills. Your homelab is the perfect place to experiment.
This program is here to help you jumpstart your own homelab.
🏆 Objectives
Why take this course?
- If you want to start with hands-on practice today.
- Build a (small) business network.
- Begin to build a portfolio - something you can showcase.
- It's free.
Expected Outcomes
- Will have a functional virtual network with simulate business components.
- Email sever, workstations, security server, SIEM, XDR, security sandbox.
- Learn the basics of setting up a business environment.
- Understand the basic steps of conducting a cyber-attack, from initial access to breached.
- Implement relevant security detections.
Prerequisites
- Basic understanding of I.T.
- A workstation with 8 GB of RAM, 4 CPU Cores, and 100 GBs of free space.
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A willingness to learn!
👉 Here's What You'll Build
This program (Enterprise 101) focuses on the foundations of building an enterprise environment. Through virtualization, we are going to emulate a business called ProjectX with the following:
- Windows Active Directory.
- Windows 11 Enterprise.
- Ubuntu Desktop 22.04.
- Security Onion.
- Postfix Email Server.
- Security Server with Wazuh.
- End-to-end Cyberattack.
- Detection Writing with Wazuh.
Curriculum
Introduction
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Skills Section 1: A Primer on VirtualBox & Virtualization
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Skills Section 2: Introduction to Linux
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- Introduction to Linux (4:38)
- Working with Directories (10:11)
- Navigating to Terminal, Navigation Commands, Help (15:02)
- File and Directory Permissions (11:43)
- Find and Working with Files (28:53)
- Input and Output Redirection (18:43)
- Patterns, Process Control, and Variables (9:53)
- Users and Software (6:44)
Section 1: Build an Enterprise Network
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- Build a Business Network (CORP) Overview (13:23)
- Introduction to Active Directory (7:18)
- Build a Directory Services Server (30:46)
- Connecting to Active Directory (3:43)
- Provision & Setup Windows 11 Enterprise (14:47)
- Provision & Setup Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 (21:49)
- Provision & Setup Ubuntu Server 22.04 (18:14)
- Postfix Overview (5:25)
- Setup Postfix (24:29)
- Provision & Setup Security Onion (7:51)
- Security Server - Provision & Setup Ubuntu 22.04 (15:04)
- Setup Wazuh (22:45)
Section 2: Create a Vulnerable Environment & Detections
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Section 3: Cyber Attack - Initial Access to Breached
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Section 4: Catch the Attacker
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Conclusion
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