Getting setup for ComSec

Most ComSec sessions are practical, so you’ll need a system you’re happy to hack on. We will run workshops in the labs as much as possible, so those machines will be available. If you’re a more experience hacker, you no doubt have your own environment, however, if you’re still getting into the area you may want a low-effort environment to start with. ComSec has built some tools to help with this.

ComSec Vagrant Setup

For a completely hands-off approach to getting the latest Kali virtual machine and installing all the tools you’ll need for a standard ComSec session, this approach will suit you.

Prerequisites:

A Windows or Linux machine with:

• Superuser privileges
• VMWare Player/Workstation/Workstation Pro or Virtualbox, capable of running VMs
• Approx 60GB of disk space.
• A git client

Installing Vagrant

1. Download the correct vagrant for your platform here
2. If you’re using Virtualbox for virtualization, skip to the next stage
3. If on VMWare, download the VMWare vagrant utility for your platform here and run it
4. Install the vagrant plugin utility with the command vagrant plugin install vagrant-vmware-desktop
5. Restart the machine

Setting up with Vagrant

1. Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/Cov-ComSec/ComSec-Kali-Deploy.git
2. Navigate into the directory of ComSec-Kali-Deploy
3. Run vagrant box update
4. Run vagrant up

After a few seconds, you should see Virtualbox/VMWare open, and the terminal should begin outputting the results of installation. A successful installation will end with “Installation complete”. The virtual machine will then reboot. The credentials to login are kali:kali.