Building Your Red Team Lab

Before you hack the world, build your own.

A solid lab is your battlefield. Whether you're practicing privilege escalation or domain dominance, having a safe and reliable environment to break things is critical.

🖥️ What You’ll Need:

• A hypervisor like VMware or VirtualBox
• A Kali Linux or Parrot OS attack box
• One or more Windows Server + Windows 10 machines
• Optional: AD environment (e.g., Forest/Domain setup)

🧪 Quick Setup Tips:

• Use NAT or Host-Only Networking to isolate your lab
• Take snapshots before major attacks
• Automate builds with tools like Packer or Terraform if scaling

⚙️ Tool Suggestions:

• Impacket, Evil-WinRM, CrackMapExec, BloodHound
• AI-assisted tools coming soon to Nest Cipher 😉