Build a routed network, then attack it and defend it. Routers, firewalls, Kali, Windows and SIEM on one drag-and-drop map, every console in your browser, marked as you go.
The gear, the attackers and the targets you'll meet on the job
Cisco
Juniper
FortiGate
Windows
Kali
pfSense
Ubuntu
Wireshark
Elastic
Docker
SEE IT
This is Lab Studio.
Real screens from version 0.2.8, running on one laptop.
Follow the guide, type on the real device.
Each lab opens as a step-by-step guide beside the live console. Tasks are checked on the real machines as you work.
hurbad.local
THE STUDIO
The whole lab. In one app, on one laptop.
Other tools give you a simulator, a separate grader and a cloud bill. Lab Studio gives you real devices, live marking and as many labs as you want, in a single virtual machine on your own laptop.
100+
device types, from Cisco IOL to Kali and Windows 11
courses and labs: every Hurbad course, plus any lab you build yourself
1 VM
holds everything: the engine, the map and every device
01 · THE LAB MAP
Draw a network. Watch it come alive.
Drag routers, firewalls and hosts onto the canvas, cable their ports and press start. Every link turns green the moment it is up, and traffic flows across it.
Cyber-LabRunning9 devices · 8 links up
KALIKali · 203.0.113.66
INETInternet
FW1FortiGate
WEB1Web · 172.16.10.10
R1Core router
SW1Core switch
DC01DC · 10.0.10.10
PC1Win 11 · 10.0.10.50
SIEMSIEM · 10.0.10.5
link trafficstaff webattacklog to SIEM
02 · LIVE MARKING
The lab grades itself while you work.
Step-by-step guides with pictures. Each task is checked live against the real devices, and again at the end. Stuck? Take a hint, or the answer for half the marks.
Cyber-Lab5/7
DMZ isolated from LANPassed
SIEM receives FW1 logsPassed
Block KALI at FW1Hint used
03 · AI BUILT IN
Ask your AI to build the lab for you.
Connect Claude Code, Codex or any MCP client with a token. It can build, start and inspect labs, and with the author scope it writes the lab guide too.
› Build Cyber-Lab: Kali outside, WEB1 in a
DMZ, a LAN with a DC and a SIEM. Start it.
✓ created lab Cyber-Lab
✓ added 9 devices · 8 links · 2 zones
✓ started · all links up
04 · NETWORKING
Build it. Route it. Troubleshoot it.
A real campus on your laptop: a Cisco core with VLANs and trunks, a Juniper branch over the WAN, OSPF between sites and NAT to the internet. Every device is a real image, so every command works.
One click turns a CTF box from the signed library into an isolated lab with Kali, already started. Then switch sides: stand up a Windows domain, firewalls and a SIEM, and catch the attack.
RED TEAM
Recon, exploit, escalate, capture the flag
BLUE TEAM
Windows domain, firewall rules, SIEM, capture
kali · Cyber-Lab
kali@lab:~$ nmap -sV 172.16.10.10
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH
443/tcp open https nginx
SIEM ▲ FW1 log: port scan from 203.0.113.66
FW1 # config firewall policy · deny 203.0.113.66
kali@lab:~$ nmap -sV 172.16.10.10
All 1000 scanned ports are filtered
Block KALI at FW1Passed · 7 of 7
Big security labs (SIEM, Windows domain) need 32 GB of memory.
COURSES WITH LABS
Every course. Every lab. One app.
Sign in and your hurbad.com courses are waiting in Lab Studio: Cisco, Fortinet, Microsoft, CompTIA, ethical hacking and more.
Windows 10 or 11, Hyper-V, VMware or VirtualBox, 16 GB of memory. 32 GB for big security labs.
01
Install
Run the Windows setup for Hyper-V, or import the OVA into VMware Workstation Pro, VirtualBox or VMware Fusion. Give it 16 GB of memory.
02
Sign in
Enter the code Lab Studio shows on hurbad.com. No password is typed into the app.
03
Open your labs
Your labs appear, ready to start, and you can build your own. Updates install from Settings.
https://hurbad.local:8443
Your link is up.
Real networks, real attacks, real marks. Hurbad Lab Studio 0.2.11 for Windows, VMware and VirtualBox.
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Windows
One-click Setup for Hyper-V on Windows 10 or 11.
Hyper-V
Windows 10
Windows 11
Download for Windows.exe · 860 MBVersion 0.2.11-108545cb · checksumSHA-256 c93dac82eab7ef2541631162ea09759a15ba1f35733ec29f03e70ebe2e194ddc
vm+
OVA
One appliance file for VMware and VirtualBox, on Windows, Linux or Mac.
VMware Workstation
VMware Fusion
VirtualBox
Download OVA.ova · 1.1 GBVersion 0.2.11-108545cb · checksumSHA-256 b08eb4d5d038b1c1aeb8c8c1c0c2b355f37ac3e54aa4148f2905bfc7261bd1f6Import it, give it 16 GB of memory and start it.
Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, Microsoft, Kali and other names are trademarks of their owners. Lab Studio does not ship their images.
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Cisco
Juniper
FortiGate
Kali
pfSense
Ubuntu
Wireshark
Elastic
Docker
KALIKali · 203.0.113.66
INETInternet
FW1FortiGate
WEB1Web · 172.16.10.10
R1Core router
SW1Core switch
DC01DC · 10.0.10.10
PC1Win 11 · 10.0.10.50
SIEMSIEM · 10.0.10.5
BR-R2Juniper · branch
FS01File · 10.10.99.10
ACC-SW1Access
ENG-PCVLAN 20 · 10.10.20.34
BR-SW1Juniper EX
BR-PCVLAN 30 · 10.20.30.15