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Cybersecurity Home Lab — Built from Scratch

This is my personal cyber lab. No bootcamps, no lectures — just bare-metal setups, VMs on fire, logs screaming, and scripts that do damage (or fix it). I built this thing to learn, to test, to break stuff, and to defend it too.

Learn by doing. Break by choice. Fix because you understand it.

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What This Is

• Simulated enterprise network
• Custom-built blue/red/purple team ops
• Infrastructure I control top to bottom
• Threats I launch — detections I tune
• Full stack: Windows, Linux, cloud, and hybrid

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Infra Breakdown

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Directory Structure

Cybersecurity_Home_Lab/ ├── 00_Resources_and_Tools ├── 01_OS_Installations ├── 02_Networking_Basics ├── 03_Windows_Lab ├── 04_Linux_Lab ├── 05_Vulnerable_Machines ├── 06_Attack_Tools ├── 07_Defensive_Tools ├── 08_Threat_Detection ├── 09_Log_Analysis ├── 10_Network_Monitoring ├── 11_SIEM_Setup ├── 12_IDS_IPS ├── 13_Honeypots ├── 14_Incident_Response ├── 15_Active_Directory_Labs ├── 16_Red_Team_Exercises ├── 17_Blue_Team_Exercises ├── 18_Reverse_Engineering ├── 19_Malware_Analysis ├── 20_Forensics_Labs ├── 21_Cloud_Security ├── 22_Web_App_Security ├── 23_Wireless_Attacks ├── 24_DevSecOps ├── 25_SOC_Automation ├── 26_Threat_Intelligence ├── 27_Pentesting_Projects ├── 28_GRC_and_Policies ├── 29_Cyber_Learning_Resources ├── 30_Reports_and_Writeups

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Tools I Bleed With

• Nmap, Hydra, Burp, Metasploit, CrackMapExec
• Suricata, Zeek, Wazuh, Fail2Ban, Sysmon
• Splunk, Kibana, ELK Stack, Grafana
• Kali, Parrot, C2s, shells, exfil scripts
• Ghidra, x64dbg, radare2, Wireshark
• AWS, Terraform, Tailscale, EC2 playground
• Bash, PowerShell, Python, YAML, crontabs

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Projects That Slap

• Full AD lab w/ DC, DNS, DHCP, GPOs — joined clients, simulated attacks
• Splunk SIEM catching brute force + recon from inside
• AWS cloud defense lab — Terraform infra + subnet cloaking w/ Tailscale
• Honeypots w/ T-Pot + Wazuh + reverse traffic analytics
• Purple team detection logic: simulate -> trigger -> alert -> document
• Malware reverse-engineering on isolated boxes
• Custom GRC docs, password policies, SOC runbooks

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Why I Built This

Certs? I’ve got some. But this is where I actually learn.

This lab runs 24/7. When I break something, I fix it. When I get owned, I analyze the logs. This is where I sharpen my tools and my mindset — and I don’t stop.

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Areas Covered

• Networking & VLANs
• Windows AD + GPOs
• Linux internals & hardening
• Web app attacks
• Log collection + analysis
• Threat detection & alerting
• SIEM correlation rules
• CTFs, payloads, privilege escalation
• Cloud and DevSecOps
• Reverse engineering and malware teardown

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Connect

• GitHub: mchyasn
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mchyasn
• Download PDF Lab Summary

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“There’s no patch for human curiosity.”