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Building Home Lab Environments

  • Number of Courses3 courses
  • Duration9 hours

As a cybersecurity professional, it's crucial to establish a dedicated "laboratory" to hone your skills and test new vulnerabilities. Just like in any field, practice is key before applying skills in real-world scenarios. This course, "Building a Cybersecurity Lab Environment," teaches you how to create a separate environment from your production network for learning purposes. You'll learn the importance and benefits of having such a lab, how to set up various target systems, including the latest Windows platforms and intentionally vulnerable systems. These targets enable you to conduct attacks, verify vulnerabilities, and undertake research projects without risking your production environment. Additionally, you'll discover how to create an "Attack Workstation" using operating systems like Kali Linux. By the end, you'll possess the skills, knowledge, and platform necessary to establish your own Cybersecurity Home Lab Environment.

Courses in this path

Home Lab Environment

Learn to establish a secure lab environment, add target servers, and set up your security workstation. Gain hands-on experience in creating a safe space for cybersecurity experimentation and practice.

Building a Cybersecurity Home Lab Environment

  • by Dale Meredith
  • 2h 2m Duration
  •  (61)

Create a Home Networking Lab Using Network Emulation

  • by Craig Stansbury
  • 3h 23m Duration
  •  (14)

Raspberry Pi Home Server

  • by Mel Grubb
  • 3h 53m Duration

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Dale Meredith
Dale Meredith
Dale Meredith has been a Certified Ethical Hacker/Instructor EC-Council for the past 15 years, and Microsoft Certified Trainer for over 20 years. Dale also has an additional 7 years of senior IT management experience and worked as a CTO for a popular ISP provider. Dale's expertise is in explaining difficult concepts and ensuring his students have an actionable knowledge of the course material. Straddling the line of fun and function, Dale's instruction is memorable and entertaining. Dale's knowl... more
Craig Stansbury
Craig Stansbury
Craig has over 10 years of IT experience, including working on Palo Alto Firewalls, Cisco Routes and Switches, Microsoft Servers, and VMWare ESXi. Craig started in IT in the United States Marine Corps and began teaching his Marines all the design and implementation concepts that they needed to know. He loves when his students have the "lightbulb moment" and are able to understand the concepts he is teaching them. Aside from teaching, Craig also owns a business that consults with enterprises to h... more
Mel Grubb
Mel Grubb
Mel Grubb has been a professional software developer since 1995, working with .Net since version 1.0. Before that, he was a hobbyist since receiving his first computer, a TI-99/4a in 1982, and heavily modifying it over the course of several years. He's a software developer in central Ohio, concentrating on C# and ASP.Net MVC solutions with a focus on simplicity, testability, and overall coding craftsmanship.

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