One of the most important considerations in building anything is the cost required to complete it. However, in the world of IT, there are many legitimate ways of building a penetration testing lab without having to spend any money. We're not talking about pirating here, because that would be illegal, however, there are many freeware applications available that operate at an enterprise standard. We will be using various applications to assemble our very own portable penetration testing lab.
To get started, there are some items you need to download from the internet to make all this happen:
- Hypervisor
- Vulnerable system(s)
- Penetration testing distribution
