Building an InfoSec Lab

This course will guide you through the basics of incorporating several Information Security Engineering Tools in your home and/or lab. By building this lab you will be able to obtain corporate-level security within your home network, as well as a higher understanding of the capabilities and advantages these tools bring to your network. This course will also help mirror an infrastructure similar to your corporate environment whereseveral tests could be performed without actually interacting with your corporate network. This course is amust for the professional that wants to grow in the security engineering industry.

Prerequisites:

1. Intermediate knowledge of networking including routing and switching

2. General knowledge of hardware and Hardware assembly

3. General knowledge of Operating systems including installation and configuration

4. Basic knowledge of Regular expressions (REGEX).5.Hardware or virtual lab in order to run the configuration.

Course Goals:

By the end of the course, students should be able to build, create, and configure their own lab for Information Security.

• Module 1: Lab Planning
• 1.0 Introduction
• 1.1 Planning Your Lab
• 1.2 Types of Labs
• 1.3 Firewalls
• 1.4 SIEM and Web Proxy
• 1.5 Scanners, DC and ESXi
• 1.6 Hardware Selection
• 1.7 VLAN and Smart Switch
• Module 2: Hardware Preparation
• 2.1 Installation Media
• 2.2 Prepping Hardware
• Module 3: Tool Installation
• 3.1 ESXi
• 3.2 Applying the ESXi License
• 3.3 Installing pfSense
• 3.4 Installing IPFire Part 1
• 3.5 Installing IPFire Part 2
• 3.6 Installing CentOS
• 3.7 Installing QRadar
• 3.8 Installing Splunk
• 3.9 Installing OSSIM
• 3.10 Kali Linux
• 3.11 Installing SIFT
• 3.12 Windows Server 2016
• 3.13 Nexpose
• 3.14 Forensic Apps
• Module 4: Firewall
• 4.1 Network Diagrams
• 4.2 Connecting the Network
• Nmap
• 4.4 IPS-Snort
• 4.5 Squid
• 4.6 VPN
• Module 5: SIEM - QRadar
• 5.1 QRadar Login Integration
• 5.2 Custom Properties Part 1
• 5.3 Custom Properties Part 2
• 5.4 Custom Properties Part 3
• 5.5 QRadar Custom Properties
• 5.6 QRadar Custom DSM Part 1
• 5.7 QRadar Custom DSM Part 2
• Module 6: Vulnerability Scanner - Nexpose
• 6.1 Vulnerability Scanner - Nexpose
• Module 7: Course Summary
• 7.1 Course Summary