PROJECT SECTION 1 DETAILS: The first part of your project consists of preparing and deploying your testing tools (the attack OS) and the vulnerable host that will serve as your attack target. Instead of requiring the use of two physical machines, we will utilize one physical machine and we vill leverage virtualization software to install a hypervisor (VirtualBox, /Mware, etc.) along with two (2) "guest" operating systems. For those new o virtualization, we are simply using our "host OS" (Window, Mac, Linux) and nstalling a virtualization "software application" that then allows us to run multiple OS'es on our "host OS" very quickly and easily. Many options xist that provide virtualized solutions, e.g., cloud-based (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean, and many, many others) or local instances on our machines. Some hypervisors run as the "host OS" (bare metal' like VMware ESXi - common in enterprise environments) or as hosted applications like VMware Fusion/Workstation, or Oracle VirtualBox. First you decide which "free" virtualization software you vant to install (VMware or Oracle) - some may already have a preference, eel free to explore both options. If you are undecided, go with VMware. As mentioned earlier, you have two options to choose from: Option 1 - Local Lab 1. Virtualization Software. Choose your virtualization software (either works fine and they are both free)