Ethical Hacker

Closed Network

You need to ensure controlled access to and from the lab environment and restricted access to the internet.

Virtualized computing environment

This allows for easy deployment and recovery of devices being tested.

Realistic environment

If you are staging a testing environment, it shoulda match the real environment as closely as possible.

Health monitoring

When something crashes, you need to be able to determine why it happened.

Sufficient hardware resources

You need to be sure that a lack of resources is not the cause of false results.

Multiple operating systems

Many times you will want to test or validate a finding from another system. It is always good to test from different operating systems to see if the results differ.

Duplicate tools

A great way to validate a finding is to run the same test with a different tool to see if the results are the same.

Practice targets

You need to practice using your tools. To do this, you need to practice on targets that are known to be vulnerable.