Yup !

You don't wanna spend too much time building machines!

I also recommend;

Turnkey Linux - for ready made installs of Snort etc
VMWare market - for VIrtualised firewalls and other appliances
Vulnerable machines: Metasploitable virtual machine
AlienVault/Splunk - SIEM solutions

On 24 Jan 2012, at 17:37, Henri Salo <henri (at) nerv (dot) fi [email concealed]> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:02:56AM -0600, Christopher Siedlecki wrote:
>> That is very neat, but in my opinion little bit to broad idea. For
>> instance you can build yourself a basic CCNA lab with PIX firewall for
>> less than couple hundred bucks. Using that simple hardware you can
>> recreate literally unlimited amount of scenarios. There is really no
>> need to use dual-quad servers with 32GB ram, unless you have something
>> specific in mind.
>
> Key-point in my opinion is to have the setup up and running fast from scratch.
>
> - Henri Salo
>
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