Abstract
In recent years, cybersecurity has become crucial to ensure that vigorous cyberassets are efficiently protected from various attacks such as ransomware, malware, and phishing. Many large organizations are facing the issue, where a group of activists, including cybercriminals, hackers, cyberterrorist, and many others, is trying to find the vulnerabilities in the organizations infrastructure to steal confidential data. Attacker/intruder gains access to the terminals and gets information such as the users database, medical history, credit card information, and government or military data. Various protective measures have been taken care of to cope with intrusion, and organizations spend millions per year. Still, the rate of data breaches and despicable intrusion is increasing. In the cybersecurity domain, several approaches have been proposed for decades. However, it has not been explored with full potential due to brutal and advanced malware like ransomware, zero-day, etc. This chapter highlights cybersecurity, virtual machine, network mode of virtual machines, and defense mechanism against various attacks. Then, this chapter accommodates the steps to create a cyberlab with its varied attributes, which is helpful to provide a strict boundary against attacks. Then, several software tools and libraries are discussed, which would be beneficial in the creating lab. On top of that, a virtual machine is the main focal point with a case study on website attacks using honeypot.
