Designing and Implementing an Effective Cybersecurity Home Lab for Detection and Monitoring

It may be difficult to adopt and implement security concepts in cybersecurity if there is a lack of practical and safe infrastructure to carry out these activities. That is how we tackled this project. This home lab leads you through the steps of configuring, optimizing, and safeguarding an information technology infrastructure. Although this will be of small size, you will be able to apply the knowledge obtained in a real-world large-scale/enterprise. A home lab is a name given to a server (or multiple server arrangement) that lives locally in your home and hosts many programs and virtualized systems for testing and development, as well as for residential and functional use. A home lab is an environment designed to imitate components of information technology infrastructure, equipment, and configurations comparable to those found in a commercial or enterprise network. This seeks to comprehend the process of installing, setting, and optimizing information technology. One of the most practical approaches to begin learning to analyze network data for anomalies and malicious activities is to examine your home network traffic as frequently as you can in a meaningful way. The better off you will be if you grasp what 'normal' looks like.