11 April 2023

Moving briskly on from my pass yesterday I’ve purchased some content material for the CYSA+ exam, purchased two Rasberry PI zero w machines. Looking up the CYSA+ exam it recommends 4 years of experience and it seems some practical experience would be very handy to cement my learning. Therefore I’ve revisited and reimaged a couple of my Virtual Machines. With that I’m pleased to introduce you to:

Attacker Kali

Service Kali

Sandbox Kali

Attacker Kali

Despite the name Attacker Kali is fairly harmless. He’s going to focus primarily on utilising some of the footprinting/OSINT tools present in his home and maybe even play some pranks on his siblings!

Service Kali

Service Kali is going to be my server/service account. After plonking a SIEM on him we’re going to get him set up to contain all the log goodies so he can snoop on what his brothers (and the missus) are up to. I’m ready to be shocked by the extreme amount of Netflix/Tiktok traffic that gets picked up.

Sandbox Kali

Sandbox Kali is unfortunately going to be the guinea pig. Want to check out a Ransomeware virus? Sandbox Kali. Fancy joining a Botnet? Sandbox Kali. Unfortunately Sandbox will be getting the worst of it, but hey at least he’s not stuck reading about those silly pass it on Tiktok videos.

I will likely be posting more often from now on. This helps me order my thoughts so I promise I’ll use categories future reader so you can skip some of the chaff!