Greetings, I'm Professor Kay, and welcome to the short course overview on my capture the flag walk
through.
Capture the flag exercises, allow us to take what we've learned in theory and actually apply it.
The idea being that we can have all the lectures, we can watch all the power points, but until we
can apply what it is we have learned, then none of that really matters for this car.
Students will be using virtual box to create all of their virtual machines, all in training software,
the ISO downloads and any old VA files that are needed for the labs are provided in the lab files.
You're going to need to create at least one virtual install of Linux and one virtual install for each
of the target machines.
Everyone should complete Section two, which is the building of their virtual lab environment before
making any final purchases for this course.
Most of the time, captured fire exercises are conducted by teams.
But when we're just starting out and we want to be able to actually learn the tricks of the trade,
so to speak, we can use these captured fly exercises in our own private lab environment and we can
learn forensic cryptography, web exploitation, reverse engineering and binary exploitation.
It's one of the best ways to learn specific security skills.
It's also helps to build a hacker persistence.
Now, what that means is that you don't give up because a lot of times you're going to get stuck with
these capture flag exercises.
Some things are going to change.
Nothing remains constant when it comes to technology.
And that includes the capture of flag exercises.
The OS is get upgraded, not the target so much, but the Calli installation.
We have all different types of tools that suddenly become abandoned by the developers.
And so maybe that tool is no longer able to work with the latest version of Cauli.
Well, that's going to require that you do some research and find your way around that wall that you
suddenly hit.
That is hackers persistence.
You don't give up the preferred operating system for this course or any captured flight course would
be a Windows operating system seven, eight or 10.
You can use a Mac machine and you can use lightning.
But the preferred system would be a Windows seven, eight or 10.
You should have at least a minimum of four gigabytes of RAM, but eight gigabytes is recommended.
Does not to say that that's going to be enough?
It all depends on a lot of other underlying variables, such as your type of CPU, how many cores it
has, what type of ram you have, what type of hard drive are you using.
So you can see that eight gigabytes is barely enough.
You're going to need a system bio's capable of supporting virtualization.
You're also going to need a high speed Internet connection or a good Internet connection, because some
of these ISO images and these target machines are very large.
They're going to take some time to download.
So make sure that you have all this in place before you sign up.
And this is all part of completing Section two of the course, which is free.
Complete that and then you'll be able to see whether or not you're all set up and ready to move on with
the rest of the capture the flag exercises while I was there previously mentioned, you should have
that theory, that basic knowledge of what you need to know to understand what's actually going on inside
of the courtroom with these captured flag exercises.
Do you know what a port is?
You know what a protocol is.
Do you understand port numbers?
Do you understand how TCP IP communicate and allows devices to see each other on a network?
Those are the things that you have to understand.
If you can understand the basic principles of technology, of networking, then you'll probably be able
to get through this course without a whole lot of grief and aggravation.
Again, thank you for dropping by, and I do appreciate the patronage, and if you need anything, don't
hesitate to reach out and contact me.
Thanks.
And I hope to see you in the courtroom.