Active Projects
- pki-x - An enterprise level security lifecycle orchestration platform
- csr-wizard - Easily create Certificate Signing Requests and import certificates into trust stores
- dust-off - Active Directory and Entra Maintenance
- Aegis - Research and development into Code Watermarking
Development Workstation
HP Z2 G9 Workstation
- 64 GB RAM
- Intel i9-12900
- 8TB nVME
- Nvidia RTX-A2000 12GB
- Yubico HSM2
This primarily serves as a local code repository and docker host
Containers:
- Technitium DNS Server
- Consul and Registrator
- Hashi Vault
- OWASP Dependency Track
- SonarQube
- Jenkins
- N8n
- Flagsmith
- ChangeDetection
- Akto
- Locust
- Grafana Observability stack; Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir, Pyroscope
- K6
- Weavescope
- Prometheus
- Jupyter
- Prowler
- Kong
- Localstack
Virtualization Hosts
I have three Simplivity Omnicube nodes (Dell R730xd’s) which I have elected not to use in a hyperconverged fashion. These give me a large playground in which I can run practically anything.
Click here to see photos of the server rack!
- 218.4 GHz of compute
- 35 TB of Storage
- 2.2 TB of RAM
- Gigabit and Ten Gigabit ethernet
- iDRAC remote management
Host1 is running vmWare’s ESXi
Host2 is running Microsoft Server and HyperV
Host3 is going to be either KVM or Proxmox
Network Gear
- Router
- Mikrotik hEX
- pfSense VM
- Mikrotik RouterOS VM
- Switch
- Ubiquity Unifi USW-48G
- Cisco Catalyst 3560G
- DNS
- PiHole x2, Technitium
- 10GigE Switching
- Dell PowerConnect 8132
- Wireless
- Cisco 2500 WLC
- Cisco Aironet WAPs
- Deco APs
- Firewall
- Cisco ASA 5520
- Network Simulation
- EVE-NG network simulator
NAS
- Synology DS412+
- Synology RS814+
Note: Storage calculations above don’t include networked storage. These two Synology NAS devices represent another 14 TB that I use for backup and personal use.
Projects and Practice - the fun stuff!
Things I have tinkered with
- test.nevermorelab.com Active directory domain
- Exchange
- Security Onion
- VulnHub VMs
- Cuckoo Sandbox
- ACME security certificate automation
- Mandiant Commando VM
- Kali Linux
- PowerShell Logging
- Malware Traffic Analysis
- Solar Water Heater temperature monitor and Grafana dashboard
- EVE-NG (emulated virtual environment - next generation)
Things that are on the drawing board - the future fun stuff!
- Set up a SANS DShield honeypot
- Elastic Stack from Scratch
- Set up Mandiant FLARE VM
- Arkime
- CSI Linux
- Splunk
- Zeek
- Google Gruyere
- OWASP Juice Shop
- OWASP WebGoat
- OpenVAS
- Nessus essentials
- Ansible
- Terraform
- Link on prem AD to AAD / Hybrid Environment
- Complete CI/CD pipeline with Dynamic code scanning
Client Devices
- Windows 11 / 10
- Ubuntu
- Rocky
- Arch
Thanks for taking the time to check out my home test lab!