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DetectionLab is a fantastic project by Chris Long for quickly deploying a Windows Domain-based test environment with Linux-based Security Information Event Management (SIEM). See our DetectionLab Tutorial or check out the project page for more information. In this post, I detail how to easily deploy additional Ubuntu Linux-based servers into the DetectionLab environment. The idea […]

DetectionLab and Vagrant DetectionLab by Chris Long makes this initial configuration a piece of cake. It is quite simply amazing; if DetectionLab was thrown into a 1RU box with blinking lights (Lockeed/Boeing/Raython) would probably sell this thing as a Cyber Range for 7+ figures. The DetectionLab will run on many operating systems and Hypervisors, but, […]

Install osquery on Ubuntu Linux Originally developed by Facebook, osquery is a well-supported and documented tool. It has straightforward installation steps for a variety of operating systems and Linux distributions. In this tutorial, we will focus on installation on Ubuntu from the official repository. If you are using Fedora or other Linux distros the initial […]

Building a network-based intrusion detection capability can be done in just 5 minutes. Install Suricata to monitor network traffic and look for security events that can indicate an attack or compromise. Suricata is based around the Snort IDS system, with a number of improvements. Suricata performs multi-threaded analysis, natively decode network streams, and assemble files […]