Active Directory is a set of Microsoft created services that work together to create a centralized administration server for a network, used to manage what computers, users, and groups have access to in an environment. Active Directory plays a big…
With my recent installation of Splunk in my HomeLab, I have been getting more and more comfortable with the query language it uses and parsing through logs. I have made multiple dashboards that are very useful for tracking user logons,…
Since my last post on Splunk, I have been getting familiar with SPL, or the search processing language. This is what Splunk uses to refine and search through logs. In this post I am going to document the setup process…
I decided to install a Splunk server on my Homelab today and wanted to talk about my reasoning for this as well as its purpose. Splunk is a very popular data ingestion and log management tool commonly used in Cybersecurity…
A SIEM, or Security Information and Events Manager, is a security analysts primary tool used for monitoring security events and logs across a network. I wanted to get some hands-on experience with this type of software before I land my…
An interesting cyber security project I have researched is a honeypot. In simple terms, a honeypot is a computer that is deliberately left insecure and on an unprotected, segmented section of the network. The purpose of having a honeypot is…
Today I started my first hacking lab. This is something I plan on doing very often in the future, so I decided to finally dive in. Ethical hacking is something I have always wanted to do, and hacking labs are…
I’m always looking for new home lab projects. This time I decided to look into creating a Minecraft Java server on my home lab. After doing some research I decided I would install an application called Crafty as a docker…
A NAS, or network attached storage, is a large storage pool that can be accessed by anyone on a local network. Many companies will use a NAS for shared storage amongst the company or to store backups in a centralized…