Step-by-step tutorials for threat hunting and detection
Your lab needs a target. Metasploitable2 goes into the DMZ1 segment — isolated from everything it shouldn’t touch — and gives you your first real machine to scan, enumerate, and exploit from Kali.
pfSense is installed — now it needs to actually do something. This tutorial covers interface configuration, DHCP, firewall rules, and network segmentation so your lab has real isolation instead of just the appearance of it.
Kali is your attack platform for the entire lab series. This tutorial covers installation inside VMware and confirms you can reach pfSense before moving on to anything else.
pfSense is the firewall that holds your entire lab together. This tutorial covers installation inside VMware and gets you to the point where the web dashboard is live and reachable from Kali.
This tutorial walks you through the installation and initial configuration so you have a working virtualization foundation before anything else in the series.
Broadcom made downloading VMware Workstation Pro a full-time job. Here’s how to survive the account creation, verification maze, and terms and conditions dance so you can actually run some VMs.
