Home security labs... who has them?

[bjaming]

Re: Home security labs... who has them?

VirtualBox VMWare etc etc...

I've been looking at Xen Server, its much faster (paravirtualized), supports a lot more functionality, centralized control, clustering, "live motion" it's open source, it's free, there's a wealth of 3rd part apps and built in apps for management and administration

You can essentially set up an entire enterprise class virtualized environment in your den with a few hours and the right hardware.

[RTKsbox35]

Re: Home security labs... who has them?

Hey, just moved into the new place (Sac), house is a Radio Shack on roids. Currently got 15 laptops 6 towers, more cabling, routing gear than I can possibly describe. I know it sounds stupid to have this much hardware, but much of it was given to me by a friend who ran a comp repair shop and moved overseas. I have set about half of it up as a pen-test/malware research lab (two parts are separate). I also allow other people who live nearby to use the machines at times (I have a ton of security gear and cam's so), trying to give kids net access and what not. I know that I need to virtualize badly (I already have the students addition of VMWare's Workstation, which is the same except 50% off), but I am also interested in doing some sort of gigantic math research project (I also have whiteboards strategically placed in an OCD like fashion). Few questions to those in similar positions, what steps are you taking to prevent 802.11 and other sorts of interference? For a college kid with little experience handling his own server, but a decent sum of money and fluidity with Unix/Linux server and desktop platforms (and who doesn't want to use Windows) what server hardware would you recommend for experimenting with a mail/ftp project (I am thinking Cent or Redhat software wise). If I just feel like learning the ropes of server management and possibly doing some hosting ,mirror, etc for educational purposes what would you advise for minimum specs? Lastly, I should note that 6-7 of my machines are being used in a botnet honeywall justifying some of the hardware being kept around here.

Thanks,
Hunter

[cronek]

Re: Home security labs... who has them?

Well in the days of old when I was still a student living at my parents' place, I had this in my bedroom:
http://imgur.com/zII5E.jpg

later, this evolved into this:
http://imgur.com/sxA4H.jpg
I loved the noise it made, as white noise makes one sleep better apparently. I still feel bad about selling that Sun. I knew a guy back then that had a business in recycling IT equipment that got written off after the usual 3 years, and would sell it at insanely low prices. Some of the things we got there included 5+KVA UPS'es, 10.000€ CAD workstations with PA-RISC cpu's, 100+ ports 10Mbit system concentrators (basically a giant hub), strange telco equipment etc etc. He once even had multiple GSM base stations (shipping container stuffed with electronics) sitting around in his yard. Unfortunately he retired eventually.
some other iterations:
http://imgur.com/xv6OZ.jpg ("panorama")
http://imgur.com/tgjg0.jpg (DEC alpha 'miata' 500 added)

Then when I moved out it evolved a bit into this (the same rack, only some other systems in it):
http://imgur.com/zRuO7.jpg
Changed the RISC's for IBM x86's running windows (for testing AD, exchange, IAS,...) some obligatory Linux and FreeBSD boxes, not shown are a number of Cisco accesspoints, some running EAP-TLS, some PEAP, some LEAP, authenticating against IAS, against FreeRadius etc etc. A VoIP setup using asterisk and Cisco phones with SIP firmware, a dedicated home automation server, etc etc.

[Deviant Ollam]

Re: Home security labs... who has them?

Well in the days of old when I was still a student living at my parents' place, I had this in my bedroom:
http://imgur.com/zII5E.jpg

later, this evolved into this:
http://imgur.com/sxA4H.jpg

wow, man. you've got me beat. and by the look of the pitch of the roof, did all that get hauled up into a top floor??

impressive tech, equally impressive lifting.

[cronek]

Re: Home security labs... who has them?

wow, man. you've got me beat. and by the look of the pitch of the roof, did all that get hauled up into a top floor??

impressive tech, equally impressive lifting.

thanks man :) it was only the second floor so we managed to get the stuff up there with 3 scrawny nerds resulting in only minimal injury and blood loss