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Cyber Range Lab

Note

This lab is a work in-progress - notes/pages may be incomplete.

Building a full-featured, attack and defense Cyber Range in a local (home lab) environment.

Install Security Onion 2

This lab uses VMware Workstation Pro to run Security Onion 2 on Windows 10 Pro.

VMWare settings for Security Onion

VMWare settings for Security Onion

Changes to the default configuration:

  • Memory: 16GB
  • Processors: 4
  • Hard Disk: 250GB
  • Network Adapters:
    • DHCP should be disabled on all interfaces (will use pfSense)
    • VMNet 1 - host-only (management interface)
    • VMNet 2 - host-only (internal sniffing)

Upon starting the machine, you'll set an admin user in the cli, then the pre-installation scripts run for ~30-45 min.

Installation takes 90 min - 2 hrs to complete.