How to Build a Cybersecurity Lab in 2025: The Ultimate Guide#

Practicing pentesting and blue team skills is definitely doable in your own customizable home-made lab. This series walks you through building a cybersecurity home lab—updated for 2025.

Your Lab Journey#

-> Part 1: Virtualization Hardware & Proxmox Setup
-> Part 2: pfSense Routing and VPN Configuration
-> Part 3: Security Onion and Active Directory
-> Part 4: Splunk Installation and Configuration
-> Part 4a: Splunk vs. Wazuh
-> Part 5: Malware Analysis Sandbox CAPEv2 Setup and Installation

Cyber Lab Network Map (so far…)#

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