Do you need a Cybersecurity home lab?

Do you need to build your own Cybersecurity home lab? Or is it better to just use labs as a service offerings?

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0:00 ⏩ Do you need your own Cybersecurity lab?
0:33 ⏩ Would you recommend a home lab?
2:00 ⏩ Roasting CCNAs and CCIEs
2:00 ⏩ Roasting CCNAs and CCIEs
3:20 ⏩ Failing step 1
7:05 ⏩ Should I just use hackthebox and other home labs as a service
9:11 ⏩ Just use a cheap computer to access the labs
9:11 ⏩ Just use a cheap computer to access the labs
10:58 ⏩ Rangeforce example - blue team battle paths
14:00 ⏩ I have $100 or $500 - what should I do?
16:51 ⏩ Top 3 red team CTFs

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Menu:
0:00 ⏩ Do you need your own Cybersecurity lab?
0:33 ⏩ Would you recommend a home lab?
2:00 ⏩ Roasting CCNAs and CCIEs
2:00 ⏩ Roasting CCNAs and CCIEs
3:20 ⏩ Failing step 1
7:05 ⏩ Should I just use hackthebox and other home labs as a service
9:11 ⏩ Just use a cheap computer to access the labs
9:11 ⏩ Just use a cheap computer to access the labs
10:58 ⏩ Rangeforce example - blue team battle paths
14:00 ⏩ I have $100 or $500 - what should I do?
16:51 ⏩ Top 3 red team CTFs


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[thewave]

I think you make a fair point if your goal is purely cybersecurity however if you're truly a beginner in your just learning infrastructure having a home lab is an important way to understand how a physical hardware works how to connect to it how to configure things and make things actually work. There's a big difference between understanding the concept of something and a virtual environment and actually implementing that to physical things. Everybody learns differently and for somebody to be a dinosaur for wanting to have Hands-On learning I think is a bit off, there's a lot to be learned for a lot of things when it comes to having a home lab. If these things are something that somebody already knows and they're already in the IT world and understands infrastructure then yes there is no need for a home lab but you say multiple times a beginner and a beginner means somebody who has no experience at all somebody who is just coming in for this and those people should build a home Labs that they know what it actually looks like, I can't tell you how many people I know that have degrees in cybersecurity and network infrastructure or administration and they finally get their degree and they get out of college and they try to SSH into a switch or connect via serial to a switch and they literally don't know how to do it or what they're doing at all, it may seem simple but when you're in a virtual environment everything just works and it's not like that in real life.

[kosmonautofficial]

As a Cisco guy I love having an awesome home lab. I would say for me it has been very helpful getting into new technologies since when I am working on it, it is more of a hobby.

[joerockhead]

David "but I want to push you now" Bombal. Love it.

[ryanhersh]

as someone who is getting into the cyber community and work force, I've been lost overwhelmed confused excited and lost all again. This put a lot of things into prospective for me so thank you.

[tyiybkl]

I love my physical homelab. I own it and the data stays with me. The satisfaction of building it out yourself is immense and not comparable to anything else.

[AhmadAli-sdmk]

Best man on the earth, you motivated me so I got my ccna ccnp and right now am preparing for oscp

[cyberclmbiana]

Such fantastic content 🔥 Perfect timing. Thank you both David & Neal for all you do - always showing up! ✊🏼

[rmp]

Awesome David & Neal! Your vlogs are among my top favorites! Hope you can make comprehensive, step-by-step guides or tutorials with discussions on how to set up a fully virtualized cybersecurity home lab and practice exercises you can run on it to help accelerate, build/hone relevant skillsets. It will be a good project that can benefit many who want or need some hands on experience as supplement to other learning methods. Thanks and more power!

[DannyCatacora]

I was just starting to build out a homelab, this was a really good fresh opinion on what my Goals are. Thanks!

[gabibd]

Thank you for another great video David. I love when you host Neal, you both are great. Can’t wait to see what Neal was about to show us in you next video. I wish you and your family the very best!

[ivang]

Great content David and Neal, this is very informational for both beginners as well as experienced in the field. some of us dinosaurs are so used to building home labs that we often forget that everything is readily available with minor effort, all we need is to shut and Lab! no excuses to better yourself.

[AdHdEntertainmentLLC]

I really like this approach that you have shown as someone that was in the process of building a home server not just for infosec training.

[raginranga]

Great conversation you guys had.. can not believe #3 next episode, the suspense!!

[virenpat]

Thank you David & Neal for this video, I was quite confused & "was" working to set up a lab & at the same checking how do it on YouTube when I came across this video. I now have clarity on what should be my road ahead. So once again, TY !

[ralphp]

Great video. I've been in IT infrastructure for years, and I'm now pivoting to cybersecurity. I've just started an MSc but it's great to hear these other things to go after to build my skills. I do like having the capability to spin up VMs at will, so I've specced up my Z840 workstation to a couple of E5-2680 v4 CPUs and 224GB RAM. In total it's probably cost me £2k (£1k on the base machine, £240 on the two CPUs and £600 on the RAM - OK, I also have a 3070Ti, but that's for games, so I'm not counting it). But there's a lot of truth in the "you don't know what you don't know" bit, so I mostly use the VMs to get experience in things I already know the basics of. For the rest - well, I'm definitely going to be trying out these online labs...

[robertgriffin]

You guys are just legends. This sort of information is Gold for the noobs in cybersecurity. Thank you very much. 🙏

[midas]

Amazing job, very detailed on what to expect if you really trying to build a home lab, which is not a job choice of option. Can't wait for the conclusion part.

[Daniel-pgqo]

Really enjoying this videos so far, really inspiring seeing like a real pperspective and tips for this career. TY guys

[Sparerime]

Good stuff! Always a pleasure to listen to you guys. Thank you for all your effort you put into this videos. 👌🏻