Chris Myers - Home Labs Without Hardware Building in the Cloud
Home Labs without Hardware - Building in the Cloud
Home lab environments are an awesome way to level up your skills in the cyber security industry. Whether you’re into penetration testing, detection engineering, or adversary emulation – a well designed lab environment can be an invaluable training tool. The cloud offers a great way for anyone interested to dip their toes into the industry, or dive deeper technically, without the need for expensive hardware. However, there can be a learning curve with getting your lab set up in a cloud provider’s network.
In this talk, I’ll share what I’ve learned over the years building cloud hosted lab environments at Snap Labs to help flatten that learning curve. I’ll cover important design considerations, cloud limitations/gotchas, various use cases and lab scenarios, existing open source lab designs to get you started quickly, and more! I’ll also be releasing an open source tool to easily and securely access your lab environment and share that access with others.