Summary

In this chapter, we discussed the reasons we selected VMware Workstation as our virtualization platform and created the initial network design as well as some of the machines that will be required throughout the book. We installed the Kali Linux distribution to include the VMware tools. We created the Ubuntu and Kioptrix machines and set up the initial configuration for the pfSense firewall, which we will use for load balancing and more. We now are ready to move on to applying the process and methodology across the targets. We will start that in the next chapter!