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Building a Home Lab for Offensive Security and Security Research

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Re: Building a Home Lab for Offensive Security and Security Research

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Post by hackerboos » Thu, Oct 26, 2017, 7:04 PM UTC

jeffmcjunkin wrote: post #16

insanebits wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you really need physical machines for linux and windows, you can always virtualize clients and run dual boot mac/windows or single thinkpad with win/linux dual boot. If budget is tight used servers are great value, for example del R710 is cheap with plenty of horsepower. Downside being space and sound.

I prefer getting a really powerful workstation and doing virtualization from there. Example: http://natex.us/enthoo-128kit (No affiliation with Natex, but I've bought that kit and I enjoy the overkill of 16 cores and 128gb of RAM)

Price has jumped a bit from your presentation.

Re: Building a Home Lab for Offensive Security and Security Research

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Post by iraklism » Thu, Oct 26, 2017, 7:24 PM UTC

throwaway2016a wrote: post #7

I'm curious why in "pre-made VMs" there is no mention of Kali Linux[1]. I was under the impression it was by far the most robust / mature implementation. Plus Mr. Robot uses it so that means it's good :p [1] https://www.kali.org/

“There’s a couple of good options (and this is not an exhaustive list) for pre-made tool VMs. Obviously you have Kali Linux for offensive tools and penetration testing, but you can also use Security Onion for the defensive side – intrusion detection and network security monitoring.”

Seems like it’s there.

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