joshnguyen08 / cybersecurity-homelab

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cybersecurity-homelab

Project Overview

Objective: Simulate real-world security scenarios using virtual machines and networking tools and gain hands-on experience to red-teaming and blue teaming concepts.

My current homelab:

PSU - MSI MAG A550 BN Gaming Power Supply - 80 Plus Bronze Certified 550W - Compact Size - ATX PSU

CPU Cooler - Noctua NH-U12S chromax.Black, 120mm Single-Tower CPU Cooler (Black)

RAM - 2xCORSAIR VENGEANCE RGB DDR5 RAM 32GB (2x16GB) 6400MHz CL36 Intel XMP iCUE Compatible Computer Memory - Black (CMH32GX5M2B6400C36)

PC Case- GAMDIAS ATX Mid Tower Gaming Computer PC Case with Tempered Glass Swing Door, 1x 120mm ARGB Fan & Front Panel Sync with Motherboards, Vertical PCIE Slots for Your Graphic Cards (VGA/GPU)

Motherboard- MSI MAG B650 Tomahawk WiFi Gaming Motherboard (AMD Ryzen 8000/7000, AM5, DDR5, PCIe 4.0, M.2, SATA 6Gb/s, USB 3.2 Gen 2, HDMI/DP, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, 2.5Gbps LAN, ATX)

CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core, 12-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor

GRAPHICS CARD: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

CPU cooler - Noctua NH-U12S chromax.Black, 120mm Single-Tower CPU Cooler (Black)

SSD - SAMSUNG 970 EVO Plus SSD 2TB - M.2 NVMe Interface Internal Solid State Drive with V-NAND Technology (MZ-V7S2T0B/AM)

Tools Used:

Zeek - network traffic capture and monitoring tool

Suricata - network traffic analysis tool for threat detection

Nessus - vulnerability scanner

Technitium DNS Server - DNS server for blocking malicious domains

Filebeats / Splunk Forwarder / Logstash - forwarding services to ELK/Splunk SIEMs

Setup and Download:

Virtualization:

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Pfsense:

https://www.pfsense.org/download/

Security Onion:

https://github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/securityonion/blob/master/VERIFY_ISO.md

https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop

Kali Linux:

https://www.kali.org/get-kali/#kali-virtual-machines

Window Machine:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-2019

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-10-enterprise

Splunk:

https://ubuntu.com/download/server

https://www.splunk.com/

ELK Server:

https://www.elastic.co/downloads
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/deb.html
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/8.15/deb.html#deb-repo