home.lab: Services and Software

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

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Last Updated: 2023-12-5

Hardware

Threat Intelligence

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)

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)

  • Shuffle (Free License)

Self-Hosted Password/Secrets Manager

  • Bitwarden (Selfhosting option after paying but highly affordable)

Vulnerability Management

General Infrastructure

  • 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)

  • 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 (Free Home Media Server)