There are many free ways to learn, cyber security. Setting up your own free lab at home on your laptop or desktop computer is perhaps one of the best.
Do you want to level up your home lab hacking skills? In this 1.5 hour’s workshop, we will learn about hacking concepts and setting up a lab. Learn how to perform reconnaissance against windows assets and identify common vulnerabilities that lead to compromise of an organization. Tools and techniques used on real-world penetration tests against Windows Active Directory using Kali Linux including hands-on demonstrations. With this lab skis the limit. You can build this lab to whatever you would like. This is just step one. Let’s go and have fun!
You will leave this workshop with the skills for setting up a hacking lab
Topics covered:
- Download VMware workstation and install.
- Download Kali Linux and install.
- Download windows server 2022 or 2019 and windows 10 evaluation and install.
- Download MS2 and install.
Lab Requirements:
- 1 Windows Server 2022, 2 Windows 10 Clients, MS2.
- Download: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter
- Download Metasploitable 2: https://sourceforge.net/projects/metasploitable/
- 80 GB of Disk Space
- 16 GB of Ram, 32 GB would be better.
Trainer Bio:
Patrick Gorman is a Cybersecurity professional, IT career coach, and a content creator on YouTube. My channel is InfoSec Pat. I started a company InfoSec Pat about 4 years ago to help others get in the world of IT and Security. My movement is about providing IT/Cyber training, coaching and providing services in the cybersecurity space. Pat has a multitude of security certifications and maintains his extensive skills by routinely taking training, learning as much as he can from the community, and researching topics that he lacks knowledge in. His favorite part of being at InfoSec Pat is having the opportunity to learn more, and help as many people as possible get into IT and cybersecurity. He is a constant contributor to the InfoSec community by writing blogs, speaking at conferences and on webcasts, and teaching his online class, how to Setup a Cybersecurity Lab. Outside of his time at InfoSec Pat, Gorman enjoys working out and staying active, playing hockey and traveling the world. Visit website at www.infosecpat.com.