Hello I need some advice or a resource to help me out. My class is using a virtual machine and we are going to play a game where the professor will

Hello I need some advice or a resource to help me out. My class is using a virtual machine and we are going to play a game where the professor will attack out virtual machine and we have to write scripts to defend it from the attack. I am needing some advice or a resource that will help me out. The book we are using is Information Security and IT Risk Management by Manish Agrawal.

Many Thanks