Lion Cipher Lab
Build a safe home lab: an isolated network for practice
- Foundations
- Beginner
- ~1 hr
- Free · no account required
Why it matters
A security lab is where you run software that is broken on purpose — vulnerable web apps, malware samples, tools that poke at other machines. If that software can reach the internet or your real home network, it can cause genuine harm. Building an isolated lab is exactly how professionals give themselves a safe place to break things: everything happens inside a sealed box that cannot touch anything you care about, and any mistake is undone in seconds.
What you'll learn
- network isolation
- VirtualBox networking
- safe lab design
- snapshots
Steps in this lab
- Why isolation is the whole point
- The three networking modes, in plain English
- Put both VMs on one isolated internal network
- Take a clean snapshot of each VM
- Prove the room is really sealed
- The one rule that matters: only touch what's yours