home.lab: Services and Software

Whether you’re building something fresh or looking to add to your existing infrastructure, this list is designed to provide you with tools and technologies to support your self-development and make your home lab environment.

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Last Updated: 2025-09-03

Hardware

• eBay (Used Hardware of any kind)

• TechMikeNY (Refurbished Servers)

Threat Intelligence

• MISP (Open source Threat Intelligence Management [TIM])

• AlienVault (Free GUI & TAXII Feed)

• abuse.ch Feeds (Free API, CSV Feeds, Plain Text Feeds)

• Azure IP Ranges and Service Tags (Free JSON Feed)

• chainabuse, formerly BitcoinAbuse (Free API)

• VirusTotal (Limited Free API License)

• hagezi’s DNS Blocklists (Resource for all types of DNS-based network blocking)

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

• Splunk, soon to be Cisco (Free, Trial, and Developer Licensing)

• OSSIM (Open source with paid options)

• ElastiSearch (Free License)

• Sysmon (Free Windows logging utility driver, requires a SIEM to dump the data)

• Wazuh (Open source XDR & SIEM)

• Security Onion (Free All-in-one Security Platform. What more could you want?!)

Malware Analysis and Reverse Engineering

• FLARE (Free Windows Malware Analysis VM image developed by Mandiant)

• REMnux (Free Linux Malware Analysis VM image)

Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR)

• XSOAR (Community Edition, requires a non-personal email address, also has limited TIM capabilities). - Palo Alto Networks has removed XSOAR Community Edition support.

• Shuffle (Free License)

Self-Hosted Password/Secrets Manager

• Bitwarden (Self-hosting option after paying, but highly affordable)

• Vaultwarden (Unofficial but Free Bitwarden container)

Vulnerability Management

• Tenable Nessus (Limited Free License for up to 16 unique IPs)

General Infrastructure and Other Stuff

• PFSense (Open source routing, switching, and firewalls)

• Ubuntu (Free and highly supported Linux distro for desktops and servers)

• TrueNAS (Popular do-it-all OS that’s FreeBSD [Core] or Debian Linux [Scale] based) - TrueNAS Community Edition is now their new OS, spinning off from Scale

• FreeRADIUS (Open source RADIUS server)

• Pi-Hole DNS (Free Raspberry Pi-based DNS Service built on privacy and adblocking)

• Home Assistant (Open source IoT automation capability)

• Plex (Mostly-Free Home Media Server)

• Jellyfin (Open Source Home Media Server)

• Docker (Containers. If you didn’t know what it was before, you will soon…)