Hey, everyone. I’ve been perusing this subreddit for the last hour or two, and I’ve decided to post due to the overwhelming positivity and knowledge that I am seeing being passed around here. I’m about a month from graduating with an Associate’s degree in Cybersecurity, and I went to a few conventions and networking groups where I was told that making a Homelab will put me ahead of most of my competition.
I have roughly $1000 I can spend. I can spend more if there’s a good case to be made.
There are so many options and videos I have seen on the subject. I’m neurodivergent, so in this context, I simply have too many options, but no direction to go. Preferably, whatever build I go with will have utilities that will allow me to
- Support VLAN and trunking
- Support segmentation
- Create multiple VM’s
- Allow me to set up a SOC environment and a red team environment
- No preference for Windows or Linux servers
- Really would prefer something that didn’t take up too much space
I’m open to whatever. NAS, SAN, enterprise technology, whatever.
I saw a Firewalla device that looked pretty neat. Firewalla Gold Plus: 2.5G Cyber Security Firewall & Router Protecting | Firewalla , looks like it combines a router, VPN, IPS, and SIEM environment.
I’ll Venmo $50 to whoever is willing to walk and talk with me and maybe offer some guidance. Also, I’ll send you a connect on LinkedIn and write you a glowing recommendation to sweeten the deal if it’s something you’re open to.
Do you have product recommendations for all this? I love what you’re saying. Sounds simple in terms of concept.