The purpose of #ResearchFriday is help defenders to build network sensors to learn, test and profile attack tools and techniques in a safe and controlled environment.

Network artefacts that could be then extracted and used to proactively search for, hunt or compile custom signatures in your own network.

Attack tools and techniques evolve constantly and as a defender we should try to keep pace with changes and also it is fun to learn!

• Virtualisation Software (Oracle VirtualBox is a good choice)
• Security Onion (https://securityonion.net) - Fantastic Open Source Swiss Army Knife of security monitoring, sensors and tools
• Moloch (https://molo.ch) - Full IPv4 packet capture
• Nginx (https://www.nginx.com) - Load Balancer, Reverse Proxy
• Docker (https://www.docker.com) - An open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications