{"id":27,"date":"2026-10-11T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T00:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jennifermilford.com\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2026-10-11T00:19:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T00:19:05","slug":"lab-build-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennifermilford.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/11\/lab-build-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab Build (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have setup a cluster in Proxmox to start building out a general IT and Security lab. I will be documenting the process as I go forward, and I will detain some of my experiences within the lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First I am running two Dell Optiplex&#8217;s as Proxmox Servers, I have two switches (Netgear, and TP-link), and a Purple Firewalla. I am in the process of building a NAS for the lab that will be added at the bottom of the lab rack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am using a Tec Mojo 10inch 10 U rack. I have additional shelves coming to better accommodate the equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The goal with the lab rack is to get a decent enough lab setup similarly to a full scale rack setup. This will allow me to run VMs and Containers to simulate the services small to medium businesses may run, in both a vulnerable state and a secured state scenarios. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will be setting up vulnerable services to practice my red teaming, detection &amp; response for Incident management &amp; incident response scenarios, secure configuration, documentation &amp; report writing utilizing logging and SIEM or other SOC tools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lag Planned install and setup:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Phase 1 Core Lab (Server for VM &amp; Containers backbone, AD, Firewall and DNS services) <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Proxmox<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>OPNsense<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>AD<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>WireGuard<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pi-hole<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Phase 2 Identity Management, SSO, Proxy &amp; Monitoring, and SIEM<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul start=\"6\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Wazuh<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Authentik<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Traefik<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Grafana<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Phase 3 Automation and Documentation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul start=\"10\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Gitea<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>N8N<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Phase 4 Security Training (vulnerable by design)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul start=\"13\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Juice Shop<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>DVWA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Metasploitable<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>WebGoat<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>VulnHub<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>redStack<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have setup a cluster in Proxmox to start building out a general IT and Security lab. I will be documenting the process as I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennifermilford.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennifermilford.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennifermilford.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennifermilford.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennifermilford.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/jennifermilford.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/jennifermilford.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennifermilford.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennifermilford.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennifermilford.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennifermilford.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}