A capstone exercise for a cybersecurity course

Authors:
J. R. Aman;James E. Conway;Christopher Harr
Affiliations:
Saint Xavier University, Chicago, IL;State of Ohio, Columbus, OH;Saint Xavier University, Chicago, IL
Venue:
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
Year:
2010

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Abstract

The design and execution of the capstone project in a computer security course is described in this paper. The course followed a 'black hat/white hat' philosophy, teaching both offensive and defensive techniques and tools. The project required students working in small teams to apply awareness of common system weaknesses and knowledge about available tools for attack and defense to locate several "flags" within a network in a limited time frame. The target network was accessed through a virtual private network (VPN), which provided a measure of security to the university and secured the connection between the students and the target.