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It is safe to conclude that as time goes on more
vulnerabilities will be present and will be evolving.
In response to this exponential growth in our fields,
vulnerability researchers and forensic experts need
to have the ability scale to level of the threat. The
solution to this issue is to put in students hands the
scalability offered by using ESXi Virtualization for
lab environments.
Abstract
Lab Objectives
Xploit Network Topology
Lab Server Specifications
Challenges
Funding - We acquired funding for this club by
going through the Colleges surplus and accepting
donations made to Xploit Cybersecurity Club.
Sustainability – To do this Xploit Cybersecurity
Club was created and through this we recruit
members and they take an active role in the
implementation and the day to day running of the
lab.
Technical – Most members started off with zero
knowledge of the network setup at the lab but as we
continue these member evolve and gain essential
training within them selves and continue collaborate
with others at the club, thus embodying the student
run aspect of the club
Pictures of the Lab
These are pictures of the Instructors and Members that make our lab great
Acknowledgements
Special Thanks to Instructors Tobi West and Irving Lemus, The Xploit
Cybersecurity Club and the Coastline Community College ASG
ESXi Virtualization is cost effective
The first server of Xploit Cybersecurity club at
Coastline Community College was a small old
Gateway computer, it was a quad core computer
with 6gb of ram and 500gb of storage. As the club
evolved and received more funding, we went on to a
full ESXi dedicated server implementation, because
of the way virtualization works we can clone,
backup and delete any OS to the technical specs
desired.
Virtualization can be contained in the
practice environment and be portable.
We contained the ESXi virtual networks in two
subnets using Pfsense firewall, with this setup we
could have up to 8 or more people collaborating over
the lab host stations at the same time and any
additional guest can use their own personal
computers to access the environment through a web
browser.
Building your own network can provide
a collaborative Network Attack, Defense
and Forensics environment.
The importance of this method of collaboration is
that it allows us as Cyber security professionals to
really be creative with the payload creation and
implementation. The other major advantage of this
that the student of the college go through every step
of making a network from ground up. They learn the
secure and proper implementation of a network from
trial and errors before they enter a real work
environment. In a way this lab provides a way to
implement all the book learning into a real hands on
experience with guidance and support from the
dedicated faculty and its members.
Chatura Ahangama
Coastline Community College
Student Run Collaborative Network Penetration, Defense
and Forensics Environment on a Limited Budget
Dell PowerEdge 1900
2.33GHz
Quad-Core
Dell PowerEdge 1950
3.0ghz
Dual-Core
- 16 GB of RAM
- 500 GB Hard Drive
- Cost $ 300 - 400
-16 GB of RAM
-500 GB Hard Drive
- Cost $ 300 - 400
Essentials
Software Hardware
- VMWare ESXi
- Windows Server
- PfSense
- Linux Flavor’s
-8 x Desktop
Workstations
-Simple Router
-2 x 8 Switches Visit : xploitcyberclub.me
xploitccc@gmail.com