Labs
Projects
Larger projects that combine several skills.
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- 94 minutes of reading
- Project: design a small office network end to endPlan, build and document a network for a 20-person office: requirements, VLAN and IP design, wireless, security, backup and a test plan, all built first in Packet Tracer or a home lab. 10 min · Intermediate
- Project: build a home lab networkPlan and build a home lab for networking, security and cloud practice: choosing hardware on a budget, isolating it with a firewall and VLANs, running a hypervisor and documenting it as a portfolio project. 9 min · Beginner
- Project: secure branch office with site-to-site VPNDesign and build a head office and branch network joined by an IKEv2 IPsec site-to-site VPN in a simulator, with addressing, firewall rules, testing evidence and a write-up for your portfolio. 10 min · Intermediate
- Project: a home SOC labBuild a small security operations centre at home: endpoints and a firewall sending logs to a SIEM, safe attack simulations mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, detection rules and triage write-ups. 10 min · Intermediate
- Project: a network automation portfolioBuild three to five small network automation projects with Python and Ansible against a virtual lab, and publish them as clean, tested Git repositories that show real engineering skills. 9 min · Intermediate
- Project: deploy a secure web app in the cloudDeploy a small web application to AWS or Azure with infrastructure as code, private networking, TLS, a web application firewall, managed secrets and logging, then tear it down and document the design. 10 min · Advanced
- Project: an IoT monitoring system end to endBuild a complete environmental monitoring system: ESP32 sensors publishing over MQTT with TLS, a broker, a time-series database and a Grafana dashboard with alerts, all secured layer by layer. 10 min · Intermediate
- Project: documenting a network (diagrams, IP plan, runbooks)Produce a professional documentation set for a lab or small network: physical and logical diagrams, an IP and VLAN plan, a device inventory, runbooks and a change log. 9 min · Beginner
- Project: building a GitHub portfolio that gets interviewsTurn your labs and projects into a professional GitHub portfolio: a profile README, well-structured repositories, clear documentation, secret scanning and good commit habits. 8 min · Beginner
- Project ideas for final-year networking and security studentsA set of realistic final-year project ideas in networking and cyber security, with how to scope each one, evaluate it, handle ethics, and avoid the mistakes that cost marks. 9 min · Beginner