virtual security lab, seeking recommendations

[tom160]

Hi,

I've recently gotten interested in learning about network security. I'm wondering if anyone has done this with Xubuntu 14.04 LTS and what their chosen path of implemetation was. I see that I have VirtualBox already installed on the system, should I use that? I'm pretty new to this, although I've studied networking on Linux a bit in the past. Are there any recommended tutorials for making a virtual lab that anyone could recommend? In a similar vein, could anybody recommend some good online and offline material to brush up on linux networking?

[slickymaster]

You could install a Kali Linux virtual machine inside VirtualBox and use it as your main monitor machine.

Here are some links worth seeing:
http://www.cis.syr.edu/~wedu/seed/Labs/VPN/VPN.pdf
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/colla...tworking/group
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NET3-4-HOWTO.html

[tom160]

Thanks for the links!

[TheFu]

It would be worth joining and asking the same question at your local DefCon group. Those guys eat/sleep/live this stuff. After all, most of the attacks are against Windows. Virtualbox is a good beginning setup. If you need more control over the network, then other options are likely to be better.