How to Build a C2 Infrastructure with Digital Ocean – Part 1

**Executive summary:** This blog post provides a concise, practical walkthrough for deploying and configuring Cobalt Strike-based red team infrastructure on DigitalOcean, including creating multiple droplets, customizing SSH, applying firewall rules, using C2K scripts to install dependencies and certificates (Let's Encrypt) for HTTPS beacons, and enabling performance monitoring; it is intended as an operational guide rather than a report of a specific cyber incident.