PinnedHow I Setup a Home Lab Running Active Directory With Oracle VirtualBox and Added Users with PowerShellIn this lab, I’ll guide you through my process of building an Active Directory home lab environment with Oracle VirtualBox. This hands-on experience helped me gain a deeper understanding of Active Directory and its workings. The following visual provides an overview of the lab setup I started the lab by…Active Directory3 min readActive Directory3 min read
PinnedIn This Lab, I Setup Azure Sentinel (SIEM) and Connected it to a Live Virtual Machine Acting as a Honey PotIn the lab, I observed live RDP Brute Force attacks from various locations worldwide. I then utilized a PowerShell script to find the attacker’s geolocation information and plot it on the Azure Sentinel Map. To start, I established my Azure account and created a Windows 10 VM within Azure. I…Azure5 min readAzure5 min read
Feb 9CCNA Prep Packet Tracer Lab 8: Life of A PacketIn this lab, we will test our knowledge of how a packet travels from its source to its destination in a network. Our objective is to identify the source and destination MAC addresses used as a packet moves between different points in a network. …Ccna6 min readCcna6 min read
Feb 4CCNA Prep Packet Tracer Lab 7: Troubleshooting Static RoutesIn this lab, we utilized the same network topology as the previous lab, which involved configuring static routes. However, the goal of this lab was to troubleshoot the misconfigurations that were causing PC1 and PC2 to not be able to ping each other. The objective was to gain hands-on experience…Ccna5 min readCcna5 min read
Feb 3CCNA Prep Packet Tracer Lab 6: Configuring Static RoutesStatic routing is a fundamental concept in computer networking that is used to direct traffic from one network to another. In this lab, we will be using Cisco Packet Tracer and Cisco IOS to demonstrate how to configure static routes. …Ccna7 min readCcna7 min read
Jan 16CCNA Prep Packet Tracer Lab 5: Configuring IP AddressesIn this lab, we explored configuring IP addresses, interface descriptions, and enabling interfaces using the Cisco CLI. Below is an overview of the lab. The first step was to set the hostname for R1. We selected R1 and entered the CLI, where we used the “enable” and “configure terminal” commands…Ccna3 min readCcna3 min read
Oct 19, 2022CCNA Prep Packet Tracer Lab 4: Analyzing Ethernet SwitchingThe first step in the lab was a question to help strengthen our knowledge of how switches dynamically learn MAC addresses and how ARP (address resolution protocol) works. Once PC1 knows the MAC address for PC3, it can successfully ping PC3 by sending out an ICMP echo request. PC3 will…Ccna3 min readCcna3 min read
Sep 16, 2022CCNA Prep Packet Tracer Lab 3: Basic Device SecurityThis lab provided me with some hands-on experience with the Cisco IOS CLI. The first step was opening the CLI for R1 by clicking it, navigating to CLI, and pressing return to start.Ccna3 min readCcna3 min read
Sep 16, 2022CCNA Prep Packet Tracer Lab 2: Examining Network Traffic Using ‘Simulation Mode’The second lab I completed in packet tracer required me to use simulation mode for the first time and reinforce the function of the different layers in the OSI model.Tcp Ip3 min readTcp Ip3 min read
Sep 15, 2022CCNA Prep Packet Tracer Lab 1: Connection TypesI will be completing daily packet tracer labs to help prepare for my CCNA test. This first lab was very basic and helped me familiarize myself with Packet Tracer and different connection types.Ccna Training2 min readCcna Training2 min read
