Home Lab Honeypot Setup with T-Pot — Tested by Nolan Voss By Nolan Voss — 12yr enterprise IT security, 4yr penetration tester, independent security consultant — Austin, TX home lab The Short Answer T-Pot is a formidable honeypot platform that excels at isolating attacker traffic, though it demands significant RAM resources; in my Austin lab,…

pfSense Plus vs OPNsense for Home Lab Security — Austin Lab Tested By Nolan Voss — 12yr enterprise IT security, 4yr penetration tester, independent security consultant — Austin, TX home lab The Short Answer After 30 days of side-by-side testing in my Austin lab, OPNsense delivers superior intrusion detection performance with 15% lower CPU overhead…

Best Privacy Browsers for Home Lab Users 2026: Cromite, Brave, LibreWolf Tested by Nolan Voss By Nolan Voss — 12yr enterprise IT security, 4yr penetration tester, independent security consultant — Austin, TX home lab The Short Answer After 21 days of testing Cromite, Brave, and LibreWolf in my Austin lab, LibreWolf delivers the strongest privacy…

Cromite Browser Review: Tested in Austin Home Lab 2026 By Nolan Voss — 12yr enterprise IT security, 4yr penetration tester, independent security consultant — Austin, TX home lab The Short Answer Cromite delivers legitimate privacy hardening with measurable benefits over stock Chromium, but its aggressive blocking creates notable usability friction. My 14-day test showed 127ms…

Unbound vs BIND for Home Lab DNS — Tested by Nolan Voss By Nolan Voss — 12yr enterprise IT security, 4yr penetration tester, independent security consultant — Austin, TX home lab The Short Answer Unbound is the superior choice for crypto and blockchain users who prioritize query integrity and low latency over raw feature bloat….

Home Lab ZeroTier Mesh Network Tested — Austin Lab Tested By Nolan Voss — 12yr enterprise IT security, 4yr penetration tester, independent security consultant — Austin, TX home lab The Short Answer ZeroTier One delivers a rock-solid 892 Mbps throughput on my WireGuard-backed pfSense VLAN, though the default kill switch reacts in 200ms which is…

Suricata IDS Rules for Home Lab Monitoring — Austin Lab Tested By Nolan Voss — 12yr enterprise IT security, 4yr penetration tester, independent security consultant — Austin, TX home lab The Short Answer Suricata IDS rulesets provide excellent visibility into network traffic but require careful tuning to avoid alert fatigue in a home environment; my…

Home Lab SIEM Comparison: Wazuh vs Graylog — Austin Lab Tested By Nolan Voss — 12yr enterprise IT security, 4yr penetration tester, independent security consultant — Austin, TX home lab The Short Answer Wazuh outperforms Graylog in my Austin home lab when handling high-volume intrusion detection events, achieving 892 Mbps throughput with a 14ms average…

YARA Rules for Home Lab Malware Analysis — Tested by Nolan Voss By Nolan Voss — 12yr enterprise IT security, 4yr penetration tester, independent security consultant — Austin, TX home lab The Short Answer YARA rules are not a consumer product with a price tag, but a critical open-source toolset for detecting malicious patterns in…

Home Lab Vulnerability Scanning with OpenVAS — Austin Lab Tested By Nolan Voss — 12yr enterprise IT security, 4yr penetration tester, independent security consultant — Austin, TX home lab The Short Answer OpenVAS provides robust vulnerability detection for self-hosted environments, though performance varies significantly based on the size of the target network. In my testing…

Proxmox VE Hardening for Security Researchers — Under WebRTC Leak Testing — Austin Lab Tested By Nolan Voss — 12yr enterprise IT security, 4yr penetration tester, independent security consultant — Austin, TX home lab The Short Answer Hardening Proxmox VE for WebRTC leak prevention requires a multi-layered approach that goes far beyond default configurations, yielding…

Home Lab ZeroTier Mesh Network Tested by Nolan Voss By Nolan Voss — 12yr enterprise IT security, 4yr penetration tester, independent security consultant — Austin, TX home lab The Short Answer ZeroTier One delivers a rock-solid baseline for mesh networking, achieving 892 Mbps throughput on a WireGuard-backed tunnel while maintaining a consistent 18ms latency across…

Proxmox VE vs VMware ESXi Free: The Austin Lab Showdown THE SHORT ANSWER If you are building a home lab in Austin, Texas, Proxmox VE is the unequivocal winner for 95% of independent consultants and hobbyists. My Proxmox cluster, consisting of three nodes, consistently outperforms VMware ESXi Free in every metric that matters to a…

Home Lab Security Advanced Configuration Guide: My Austin Lab Reality Check THE SHORT ANSWER If you are building a home lab in Austin, Texas, or anywhere with a fiber connection, your baseline security posture depends entirely on network segmentation and DNS hygiene, not on magic software. In my Proxmox cluster, I do not rely on…