Sunsetting DetectionLab

Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

On Dec 11, 2017, I published the initial release of DetectionLab. I never expected the project to garner the attention that it did, and I couldn’t be more thankful for all of the positive experiences that came about from building it. However, after nearly 6 years of actively maintaining, expanding, and improving the project, I think it’s finally time to call it a day on DetectionLab development.

During the past two years, I became a father and also joined a startup – two things that are both extremely rewarding in their own ways, but are also very large time commitments. Multi-hour uninterrupted blocks of free time no longer exist for me and that is essentially a prerequisite for doing active development and testing of DetectionLab. Over the years, I’ve spent hundreds of hours testing changes and implementing new features. In that time:

Installing DetectionLab on ESXi

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I recently purchased an Intel NUC that I will be installing ESXi 7 on. I decided this would be a great opportunity to create a step-by-step guide on deploying DetectionLab on ESXi.

Hardware

For the hardware, I went with a Skull Canyon i7 NUC. For their size and price point, these things are hard to beat. I found a used one on eBay for $300 and got 2x1TB NVME drives and 32GB of RAM for an additional $300 bringing the total to $600. You can likely build a machine with more RAM/CPU for that price, but almost certainly not in such a quiet and compact case.

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Sunsetting DetectionLab

Installing DetectionLab on ESXi

Hardware