Cybersecurity-home-lab-projects - Hands-on cybersecurity home labs aligned with Comp
项目说明
Cybersecurity Home Lab Projects (CompTIA Security+)
Welcome to my Cybersecurity Home Lab repository!
This is a growing collection of hands-on lab projects built to align with CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) objectives. Each lab simulates real-world en and scenarios to help reinforce key cybersecurity concepts such as system hardening, assessment, and network defense.
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📚 Completed Labs
🧩 HomeLab01: Perform System Configuration Gap Analysis
This lab demonstrates how to perform a system configuration gap analysis on Windows Server 2019 using Microsoft Policy Analyzer. The analysis compared the system’s effecti against a Microsoft security baseline and identified non-compliant settings related to password length and account lockout policy.
Skills practiced:
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🧩 HomeLab02: Configuring Examples of Security Control Types
This lab demonstrates the four major types of security controls and how they apply in a Windows en.
Control types implemented:
Skills practiced:
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🧩 HomeLab03: Finding Open Services Ports with Nmap
This lab demonstrates how to use Nmap to identify open service ports, detect operating system information, and analyze potential attack surfaces across different network en.
Tasks completed:
Skills practiced:
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🧩 **HomeLab04: Acti Domain Services and Domain Connectivity
This lab demonstrates how to build a basic Windows domain en using Windows Server 2019 and Windows 10. The lab includes installing Acti Domain Services, promoting a server to a domain controller, creating the wara.edu domain, AD DS startup in Event , joining a Windows 10 client to the domain, and confirming the client computer object in Acti Users and Computers.
Skills practiced:
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🧩 **HomeLab05: Organizational Units, Groups, and Delegation
This lab demonstrates how to create and manage Organizational Units, Acti groups, and delegated permissions in a Windows Server 2019 domain en. The lab includes building a college-style OU hierarchy, moving computer objects, renaming and deleting OUs, delegating password reset permissions, configuring custom delegation, and creating groups with different scopes.
Skills practiced:
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🧩 **Home Lab 06: Acti User Account Management
This lab demonstrates how to manage user accounts in a Windows Server 2019 Acti domain en. The lab includes creating user accounts, assigning users to groups, updating user properties, signing in with a domain account, resetting passwords, disabling and enabling accounts, moving and renaming users, deleting test accounts, and searching Acti objects.
Skills practiced:
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🧩 **Home Lab 07: File Sharing, Share Permissions, and NTFS Permissions
This lab demonstrates how to create and secure shared folders in a Windows Server 2019 domain en. The lab includes creating a shared folder, accessing it from a Windows 10 domain client, configuring share permissions, configuring NTFS permissions, testing user access, and understanding how the most restricti applies when share and NTFS permissions conflict.
Skills practiced:
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🧩 **Home Lab 08: Group Policy, Desktop Configuration, and Mapped Network Drives
This lab demonstrates how to use Group Policy in a Windows Server 2019 Acti domain en. The lab includes creating and linking GPOs, configuring desktop wallpaper, applying policies with gpupdate, creating a Clean Desktop policy, mapping the SecurityPlus shared folder as the S: dri Group Policy Preferences, and testing access based on group permissions.
Skills practiced:
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🧩 Home Lab 09: DNS Server and DNS Client Configuration
This lab demonstrates how to configure a DNS client on Windows 10 and install/configure the DNS Server role on Windows Server 2019. The lab includes static IP addressing, DNS client configuration, DNS Manager, forward lookup zones, A records, hostname resolution testing, and Wireshark DNS traffic analysis.
Skills practiced:
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🧩 Home Lab 10: DHCP Client and DHCP Ser
This lab demonstrates how to configure a DHCP client on Windows 10 and install/configure the DHCP Server role on Windows Server 2019. The lab includes DHCP client settings, static server IP configuration, DHCP scope creation, exclusions, lease duration review, DHCP options, scope acti, IP release/renew testing, and Wireshark analysis of DHCP Discover, Offer, Request, and ACK traffic.
Skills practiced:
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🧩 HomeLab11: API Troubleshooting and Postman Support Lab
This lab demonstrates how to troubleshoot REST API requests using Postman in a technical support en. The lab includes testing a public API, sending GET and POST requests, re JSON responses, identifying bad endpoint errors, correcting request issues, and documenting the resolution in a ticket-style format.
Tasks completed:
* Tested a public REST API using Postman
* Sent successful GET requests to retrieve JSON data
* Sent a successful POST request using a raw JSON body
* Re HTTP status codes including 200 OK and 201 Created
* Troubleshot a failed request caused by an incorrect endpoint
* Corrected the endpoint and successful API response
* Documented troubleshooting steps, root cause, and resolution in ticket-style format
Skills practiced:
* Postman
* REST API troubleshooting
* GET and POST requests
* JSON response review
* HTTP status code interpretation
* Endpoint
* Technical support documentation
* Ticket-style case notes
* Step-by-step customer support communication
* SaaS support fundamentals
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🚧 Upcoming Labs
Planned future labs include:
* Windows 10 Troubleshooting and Support Tools
* IT Support Ticket Documentation and Resolution Workflow
* Microsoft 365 User and Email Support Simulation
* Setting up Remote Access
* Implementing Backups
* Configuring System Monitoring
* Performing Root Cause Analysis
* Implementing a Firewall
* Performing DNS Filtering
* Using Storage Encryption
* System Hardening
* Network Incident In and Remediation
🧠 Skills Demonstrated
This repository demonstrates hands-on experience with:
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Career Relevance
These labs support my preparation for entry-level IT support, help desk, junior system administration, and cybersecurity roles. Through these projects, I am building practical experience in troubleshooting, system configuration, security monitoring, access control, and documentation.
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📌 About
I am currently preparing for CompTIA Security+ and building hands-on experience through cybersecurity and IT support labs. My goal is to continue de practical technical skills that can be applied in real-world IT and cybersecurity en.
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🤝 Let’s Connect!
If you are working on similar projects, studying for Security+, or interested in IT support and cybersecurity, I would be happy to connect.
📎 LinkedIn Profile
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项目信息
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技术要点
该项目属于防护思路方向的开源资源，代码结构清晰，适合安全研究人员学习参考。项目围绕Hands-on cybersecurity home labs aligned with CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701). Includes labs on vulnerability scanning, password security, firewalls, encryption, malware, digital forensics, and more. Covers real-world tools and scenarios to build practical defensive security skills.展开，提供了可运行的实现，对理解相关安全机制、工具原理与攻防技术具有较高的研究价值。
从技术实现角度看，此类项目的核心在于对底层原理的深入理解与工程化落地。开发者在研究过程中可以结合官方文档与社区讨论，梳理项目的初始化流程、核心模块职责与数据流转，逐步掌握其中的技术细节与设计思路。
使用与学习建议
1. 下载源码压缩包，解压到本地环境。
2. 根据项目类型准备对应的运行环境与依赖。
3. 按照 README 中的步骤完成配置与部署。
4. 在隔离的测试环境中运行验证，避免影响生产系统。
免责声明
本资源来源于开源社区，仅供安全研究、技术学习与合法授权范围内的攻防演练使用，请勿用于任何非法或侵害他人权益的用途。使用本项目产生的一切后果由使用者自行承担。
| 资源标题 | Cybersecurity-home-lab-projects - Hands-on cybersecurity home labs aligned with Comp |
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