A home lab is an invaluable resource for cybersecurity professionals to gain practical experience, develop and refine their skills, and stay current in a rapidly changing field.
It is a playground for learning, experimentation, and preparation for real-world cybersecurity challenges.
Whether you’re a pentester, a reverse engineer, a SOC analyst, or else, building a home lab can bring you much knowledge.
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How to start your home lab – Benjamin H.
https://lnkd.in/etU75Sfj
Build a home lab for infosec with Ralph May – Black Hills Information Security
https://lnkd.in/eYPnCcn7
Learn Virtualbox and virtual machines – Cyberspatial
https://lnkd.in/ePDjpHTw
Building a security lab in virtualbox – Benjamin Heater
https://lnkd.in/eKT3WpkC
Bare metal Proxmox laptop – Benjamin Heater
https://lnkd.in/eBYi8_MX
While you’re at it check out all of Benjamin Heater’s blog post about Home labs
https://lnkd.in/eb_t7fBC
𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗘 𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗘𝗥𝗦How to build a research lab for reverse engineer by The Hacker News
https://lnkd.in/eYw-76tV
Best Beginner reverse engineer lab set up by Ring zero labs
https://lnkd.in/esBfyxmn
𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗦𝗢𝗖 𝗔𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗬𝗦𝗧𝗦Operating a SOC Analyst Home Lab by Christopher Elce
https://lnkd.in/ePaqn6PG
Building a Secure Cybersecurity Lab: A Journey of Isolation and Exploration by the infosec guy
https://lnkd.in/emM2yJiK
𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗦My blog post on how to get started with pentest (with a vbox home lab setup) C.S by G.B
https://lnkd.in/ePR8DGfZ
Building a home lab for offensive security basics by David Tomaschik
https://lnkd.in/ey77FRxG
Building and Attacking an Active Directory lab with powershell by myexploit2600
https://lnkd.in/eD5_e6T2
Lab of a penetration tester (oriented AD) by Nikhil Mittal
https://lnkd.in/eKVpisC8
Exegol – Fully featured and community-driven hacking environment
https://lnkd.in/ezxZAzcb
Web Pentesting Home lab by Rajneesh G.
https://lnkd.in/e6ETMBnr
𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗗𝗜𝗚𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗦𝗜𝗖𝗦Digital Forensics Lab & Shared Cyber Forensic Intelligence Repository – Frank Xu
https://lnkd.in/eRNBS4AH
Disclaimers:
*1 This is provided for educational and informational purpose only
*2 “Pentesting” or other similar terms refer to legal intrusion tests that aim to identify vulnerabilities and improve cybersecurity, rather than for malicious purposes.
Source: Gabrielle B. (Award winning Pentester)
