My Cybersecurity Homelab Setup

In order to build my skills in cybersecurity, I am creating a homelab.

[THIS ARTICLE IS A WORK IN PROGRESS]

Equipment (I have provided Amazon links to products I got on Amazon as well as my PC Part Picker list)

• Raspberry Pi 4B with 4 GB of Ram
• Raspberry Pi 4B with 2 GB of Ram & extra Canakit USB WiFi Adapter
• Raspberry Pi B+ with a Netgear USB Wifi adapter
• Fall 2016 Macbook Pro
• PC that I built in 2021 running Arch Linux (Basic specs: 8-core AMD CPU, 64 GB RAM, 6 TB SSD storage)
• TESmart KVM switch
• GL-iNet-GL-SFT1200 Router with Wireguard to connect virtually to the network
• Other devices that I use — work laptop, iPhone, Amazon Alexa, iPad from the early 2010s, etc

Current Physical Machine Setup

• DietPi server on RPi 4B (4G) running VaultWarden
• Arch Linux running Docker and VirtualBox
• Windows 11 Pro with VMWare Workstation
• MacOS

Current Virtual Machine Setup

• Kali Linux
• Windows Malware Analysis Machine
• Windows DFIR machine
• Windows Assembly Development machine
• Kali Linux with Ghidra installed
• SANS SIFT machine
• Ubuntu machine running Wazuh
• General Windows VM
• Manjaro machine with Blackarch repos

Next Steps

• Kubernetes cluster
• Cuckoo Malware Sandbox Setup
• Services running on different Linux, Windows, mac, bsd, and other operating systems
• Mobile pentesting instance