Div0 CDQ Workshop - Building Your Own Home Lab

A refundable deposit of SGD30 will be collected and refunded at the end of the workshop (within 2 working days). For refunds, attendees must email a screenshot of the completed post-event survey form to community@div0.sg via the email they used during sign-up.

Dinner will be provided to all workshop attendees.

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ABSTRACT

From Curiosity to Capability: Build Your First Home Lab

A home lab is a personal computing environment you build and run yourself — a sandbox to experiment, break things, and learn. In this workshop, we explore why building one at home is one of the most practical ways to develop real cybersecurity skills, bridging the gap between textbook knowledge and hands-on capability. We will walk through how home lab concepts map directly to professional cybersecurity environments, and demystify the core terminologies you will encounter along the way — SSH, NAT, VLANs, IP and DNS, virtualisation, Docker, and remote access. Whether you are a student, a career switcher, or an IT professional looking to go deeper, this workshop gives you the foundation to start building with confidence.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Homelab foundations + Quick Threat Modeling

Lets build a simple DNS lab

Monitoring logs

What's next?

SET UP REQUIREMENTS

Bring your own laptops (and laptop chargers)

Install VMware

Download Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) iso file and install in VMwareMake sure to use NAT Network Mode when installing Proxmox as a guest VM on VMWare, otherwise it gets a little bit more tricky to change the IP address (requires CLI)

TRAINERS

Jeremy (LinkedIn)

Jun Hong (Dave) (LinkedIn)

CO-ORGANISERS & VENUE SPONSOR

CyberSG TIG Collaboration Centre

BLOCK71

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