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Building the Ultimate Cybersecurity Lab and Cyber Range

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Building the Ultimate Cybersecurity Lab and Cyber Range

Instructor: Pearson

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1 module

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

7 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

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1 module

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

7 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

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.

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8 assignments

Taught in English

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There is 1 module in this course

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.

This module guides learners through building and managing cybersecurity labs, from setting up home labs and exploring Linux and virtualization, to deploying scalable infrastructure with OpenStack and Proxmox. It covers lab requirements for Wi-Fi and IoT hacking, cloud-based lab deployment, automation with Vagrant, Ansible, and Terraform, and best practices for malware analysis labs. The module concludes with honeypot and honeynet deployment in both local and cloud environments, providing hands-on skills for ethical hacking, incident response, and security research.

What's included

31 videos8 assignments

31 videos Total 171 minutes

Introduction 2 minutes
Learning objectives 1 minute
Introducing Cyber Ranges 2 minutes
Building a home lab and typical hardware requirements 6 minutes
Building a lab for ethical hacking, bug bounties, and penetration testing 4 minutes
Most common Linux distributions 10 minutes
Introducing WebSploit Labs 8 minutes
Building labs for incident response, threat hunting, and digital forensics 12 minutes
Learning objectives 0 minutes
Building your own private cloud with OpenStack 8 minutes
Introducing Proxmox and deploying VMs and containers 14 minutes
Installing Proxmox featuring advanced deployments and clustering 9 minutes
Learning objectives 0 minutes
Hardware requirements for wi-fi hacking 8 minutes
Hardware requirements for IoT hacking 8 minutes
Using Linux Kernel modules to build a wireless hacking lab without the need of physical adapters 11 minutes
Learning objectives 1 minute
Building a lab in AWS 12 minutes
Building an Active Directory hacking lab in Azure 4 minutes
Building your lab with AI and interacting with hundreds of APIs 8 minutes
Learning objectives 0 minutes
Using Vagrant 8 minutes
Using Ansible 10 minutes
Using Terraform 4 minutes
Learning objectives 0 minutes
Best practices when handling and detonating malware for analysis 6 minutes
Creating sandboxes for malware analysis 3 minutes
Learning objectives 0 minutes
Comparing honeypots and honeynets 4 minutes
Building a honeypot and honeynets on-premises and in the cloud 4 minutes
Building the Ultimate Cybersecurity Lab and Cyber Range: Summary 2 minutes

8 assignments Total 240 minutes

Introduction to Cyber Ranges and Starting a Home Lab Quiz 30 minutes
Building Scalable Lab Infrastructures Quiz 30 minutes
Surveying Lab Requirements for Wi-Fi and IoT Hacking Quiz 30 minutes
Building Your Lab in Cloud Environments Quiz 30 minutes
Automating Lab Deployments and Tasks Quiz 30 minutes
Building Labs for Malware Analysis Quiz 30 minutes
Introducing Honeypots and Honeynets Quiz 30 minutes
End of Assessment Quiz 30 minutes

Instructor

Pearson

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