Lab 2 was more of an introduction to what we would be doing in the future. It introduced basic commands that are needed in most projects. Commands like /etc and -ls are simple but major commands we were taught.

Lab 3 was was more confusing but I was able to grasp the concept of VI editing within 30 minutes. Their wasn’t too much to take from this assignment other than finding list and changing certain data.

Lab 4 was one of my easiest labs. Learning how to manage groups and create users and directories was a very fun task. I picked this up quickly since it was so simple. The different groups is very helpful when you don’t want all data tied to one account.

Password cracking was definitely my favorite lab. Brute forcing passwords was fun to me because I have an interest in becoming an ethical hacker. This was my first time actually finding out something like a password that is supposed to be a secret. We used a tool called John the Ripper to brute force passwords…

Lab 6 was an easy concept to grasp. Reading, writing, and execution permissions are given to certain groups with different levels of clearance. For the lab we created groups and gave users permissions based on what we wanted their role to be. This was a cool assignment to do a it gave me insight into…

Lab 7 was interesting to me because I had no idea there virtual storage. I had obviously heard of the cloud but this to me was different. Being able to create and allocate your own storage was unfamiliar to me. I did like this lab though since it taught me how to create different Virtual…

Scripting is something I thought would be a heavy focus in my start to learning cyber security but it’s not. This is why I was excited when we got to create scripts for the first time. I have always wanted to code but I was never sure how or where to start so this was…

Lab 9 was a shorter automation scripting assignment. It wasn’t to different from lab 8 so it was pretty easy to understand. This time we used crontab and used it to make a script that creates backups of certain files.

Lab 10 was surprisingly enjoyable. This assignment focused on subnetting. It is intimidating at first but is just like riding a bike, once you learn you will never forget how. I was very confused at first and it honestly took me 40 minutes to really understand how to be efficient with it. We used a…

This was the first lab of my Linux class. Installing Linux was no challenge. Things like navigating the files were easy and even though it was my first time using a virtual machine. Before this I didn’t know what a VM was but now I can tell just how useful they are.