Building the Ultimate Cybersecurity Lab and Cyber Range

Building the Ultimate Cybersecurity Lab and Cyber Range

by Omar Santos
Released December 2023
Publisher(s): Pearson
ISBN: 013831909X

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3 Hours of Video Instruction

Practice and enhance your Ethical Hacking and Defensive Security Skills!

Take your first step to building your very own cybersecurity lab and preparing for the future of cybersecurity. Building the Ultimate Cybersecurity Lab and Cyber Range is a vital resource for anyone serious about learning hands-on cyber skills. It is also an essential resource to study for a variety of cybersecurity certifications, including Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), CompTIA PenTest+, CEH Practical, Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP), Cisco CCIE Security, or CCNP Security.

The course serves as a comprehensive guide for those beginning their journey in penetration testing, exploit development, or malware reverse engineering; it covers how to build yourown virtualized, physical, or cloud-based environment to practice your skills in a safe ecosystem.

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Topics covered:

  • How to create a lab for offensive and defensive cybersecurity concepts
  • Learning and obtaining access to numerous tools that you can use to practice your skills, from virtual machines (VMs), Docker containers, and intentionally vulnerable systems
  • Learning how you can leverage tools like Virtual Box, VMWare Workstation/Fusion, ESXi, Proxmox, or even OpenStack to build your own cyber range
  • Learning how to create environments in cloud services such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Digital Ocean.

About the Instructor:

Omar Santos is a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) security, research, incident response, and vulnerability disclosure. He is a board member of the OASIS Open standards organization and the founder of OpenEoX. Omar's collaborative efforts extend to numerous organizations, including the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) and the Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI). Omar is the co-chair of the FIRST PSIRT Special Interest Group (SIG). Omar is the lead of the DEF CON Red Team Village and the chair of the Common Security Advisory Framework (CSAF) technical committee. Omar is the author of over 20 books, numerous video courses, and over 50 academic research papers. Omar is a renowned expert in ethical hacking, vulnerability research, incident response, and AI security. His dedication to cybersecurity has made a significant impact on technology standards, businesses, academic institutions, government agencies, and other entities striving to improve their cybersecurity programs.

Skill Level:

  • Beginner to Intermediate

Learn How To:

  • Build virtual, physical, or cloud-based cybersecurity lab.
  • 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.

Course requirement:

  • Course participants should have a basic understanding of computing and networking.
  • Supplemental information and additional material for this course can be accessed at https://h4cker.org/labs

Who Should Take This Course:

  • You are interested in cybersecurity
  • You are preparing for the cybersecurity certifications
  • You want to learn about the different ways that you can practice your skills in a safe environment
  • You want to learn different tips on how to create multiple

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Table of contents

  1. Introduction
    1. Building the Ultimate Cybersecurity Lab and Cyber Range: Introduction
  2. Lesson 1: Introduction to Cyber Ranges and Starting a Home Lab
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 1.1 Introducing Cyber Ranges
    3. 1.2 Building a home lab and typical hardware requirements
    4. 1.3 Building a lab for ethical hacking, bug bounties, and penetration testing
    5. 1.4 Most common Linux distributions
    6. 1.5 Introducing WebSploit Labs
    7. 1.6 Building labs for incident response, threat hunting, and digital forensics
  3. Lesson 2: Building Scalable Lab Infrastructures
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 2.1 Building your own private cloud with OpenStack
    3. 2.2 Introducing Proxmox and deploying VMs and containers
    4. 2.3 Installing Proxmox featuring advanced deployments and clustering
  4. Lesson 3: Surveying Lab Requirements for Wi-Fi and IoT Hacking
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 3.1 Hardware requirements for wi-fi hacking
    3. 3.2 Hardware requirements for IoT hacking
    4. 3.3 Using Linux Kernel modules to build a wireless hacking lab without the need of physical adapters
  5. Lesson 4: Building Your Lab in Cloud Environments
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 4.1 Building a lab in AWS
    3. 4.2 Building an Active Directory hacking lab in Azure
    4. 4.3 Building your lab with AI and interacting with hundreds of APIs
  6. Lesson 5: Automating Lab Deployments and Tasks
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 5.1 Using Vagrant
    3. 5.2 Using Ansible
    4. 5.3 Using Terraform
  7. Lesson 6: Building Labs for Malware Analysis
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 6.1 Best practices when handling and detonating malware for analysis
    3. 6.2 Creating sandboxes for malware analysis
  8. Lesson 7: Introducing Honeypots and Honeynets
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 7.1 Comparing honeypots and honeynets
    3. 7.2 Building a honeypot and honeynets on-premises and in the cloud
  9. Summary
    1. Building the Ultimate Cybersecurity Lab and Cyber Range: Summary

Product information

  • Title: Building the Ultimate Cybersecurity Lab and Cyber Range
  • Author(s): Omar Santos
  • Release date: December 2023
  • Publisher(s): Pearson
  • ISBN: 013831909X