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Hello Friends Welcome back to the course.
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Let us discuss the next important topic here and that's about the hardware requirements.
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So what will be the hardware requirements for completing this course.
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The requirements are pretty basic and almost all modern day laptops are PCs will have this configuration. 
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but it is ideal to have a CPU of two to three GHZ of processing power and RAM of 8 to
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16 GB. The RAM will be critical here because we have to run a bunch of virtual machines that will be
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like a safe environment where we will be executing and analyzing the malware files.
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We would also require at least 200 GB of storage space.
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That's the ideal scenario.
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But if you have less than that for example let's say 60 to 80 GB of space and that would also work
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out but it would be best to have at least 100 GB storage space free to perform all the operations
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of this course.
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Coming to the software requirements. The requirements again here are pretty basic.
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And as we proceed in the course we'll be talking more about what kinds of tools and softwares would
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be required to do some specific analysis goals.
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So starting with the operating system so it would be good to have either Windows or a UNIX based machine.
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Either Mac or the next that would be sufficient to hold your virtual environment.
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You should have Windows 10 or Windows 7 as a guest OS or as a virtual OS because most of the malware
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analysis tools are designed for Windows environment so it would be ideal to have a virtual image of
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either Windows 10 or Windows 7 where we can do the analysis of the file formats.
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We would also need virtualization software like VMware or virtual box.
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Obviously these softwares will help us to launch the guest OS which is a Windows environment and we
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will be setting up our entire analysis lab in this guest environment.
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The next video will basically talk about how we are going to set up the entire environment here.
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There will be some additional tools that will be required as well during the course.
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Some of them have been listed here like IDAPro, Wireshark, PEstudio, CFF Explorer, text editor etc..
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this is not the complete list.
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There will be few more tools that will be required as well and there are a bunch of ways how we can
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go through it.
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We can either install all these tools in a single go when we are setting up our malware lab or we can
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set up a basic environment where we have the windows guest OS running and we can start using tools one
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by one as we proceed with the different steps of analysis.
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So both options are there.
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We'll see how we want to take it forward.
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Then we would also need malware samples that can be downloaded from Virustotal and other open sources.
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Obviously because we are going to do analysis of malware files and malicious files it's ideal to have
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a separate lab kind of environment where we can have these files downloaded where we can start
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analyzing them.
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And because these are actual malware samples, actual infected files it would be ideal to have them saved
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in an environment where it cannot really infect your host operating system.
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So we would need sources from there we can download all these malware samples.
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You can get the information either from Virustotal or probably some other open sources.
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There are a lot of different sources and very good sources
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From there we can collect malware samples and we'll be talking about them in great detail later on.
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I'll also try and provide you these malware samples by hosting them on my personal cloud account.
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If it doesn't violate the policies of the cloud services.
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And probably from there as well you can download the sample and analyze the courses.
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So that's all about this video.
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And in the next video probably we will go ahead and discuss about how we can set up our malware lab.
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Thanks a lot guys.