OK, so now we're going to build our cyber range.
This is our lab, and instead of, you know, having to subscribe to us or Microsoft Azure or Google
Compute Platform GCP, or instead of having to pay a monthly subscription to some service provider for
cloud access to a range, we're going to build it on our box.
Now, I've got a pretty beefy boss.
I've got 32 gigabytes of RAM.
I've got a one terabyte solid state drives, but my computer is pretty old.
The one I'm recording this from is actually like six years old.
I think about this.
I don't know when I bought it, but it was a while ago.
And so what we're going to do now is we're going to start with the entire workstation.
This is our hypervisor and this is really the thing that's going to contain our entire environment.
All right.
So we could use virtual box virtual boxes.
Good.
But it's not a stable it doesn't have that kind of consistency and predictability that VMware workstation
offers.
So we're going to start with VMware.
And I strongly suggest that you actually pay for this after the trial finishes because it is that good.
It's what we can do to get started if we just go to products.
We should go down to desktop hypervisor and go to Workstation Pro, then we can click on try workstation
pro.
Right.
Let's get the latest version, whatever that happens to be.
Here we go.
All right, so we want to download for Windows and this computer that I'm talking to you from or recording
from, this is a Windows box and this is known as my host operating system host, OK?
All the virtual machines that we build are our attacker virtual machine, our domain controllers, our
domain joined members of our domain, joined servers and workstations.
Everything else is a VM where a guest, a guest, VM.
OK, so this terminology to get out of the gate, make sure you understand that now that we have VMware
workstation download, let's install it so we can just click open.
We can just click next.
We're going to accept the license agreement.
Whatever that says legally is.
I'm sure we probably need to read it, but I don't and I don't think anyone else does either.
Let's go ahead and install the enhanced keyboard driver and we're going to add the console tools into
our system path and we can keep it in the default installation directory.
A check for product updates, that's a good idea to do that.
I'm not going to join the customer experience improvement program because I don't want to send unnecessary
data to VMware.
Right.
So we can click next.
And I'm going to go and disable both of these, I like to have a minimal desktop, as you can see,
there's absolutely nothing on my desktop, just the way I like to keep it, like next.
And let's be ready to install.
All right, let's do it.
All right, so I'm going to let this install and once it finishes, we can circle back and, you know,
show you what you need to do next.
All right.
So the install finished.
And by the way, during the installation process, you might have noticed that you temporarily lost
Internet connectivity.
That's perfectly fine while it's installing the virtual network adapters that you'll use throughout
this cyber range.
Sometimes that happens.
And so as long as your network connectivity was restored, you should be good to go.
All right.
So let's click finish to go ahead and finish this up.
And of course, it is going to ask us to restart.
So let's go and do that.
And I will circle back once we finish.
All right.
So now we've got the Amway workstation installed after the reboot.
You can see we've got these different buttons that we can click now.
One thing you're going to notice is in this left library paint, we're going to build out our range
and we're going to have all of our computers, our firewall, our SIM.
It's going to be amazing.
But right now, we're going to leave this the way it is, because what we need to do next is to install
our Tacker virtual machine.
Right.
You can't have a modern ethical hacking course without an attacker.
Now, some attackers are using it.
Others are just using a custom built of Linux.
But we're going to use Calli because it's the most popular, it's the easiest to use and it contains
almost all the tools you're going to need in order to become a proficient penetration tester or red
team.
All right.
So I will see you guys in the next lecture when we start with our Calli installation.
And when we add our first virtual guest to our cyber range.
I'll see you guys in a bit by.