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Developing "hand on" information security lab activities often requires a substantial budget and resource commitment. In addition to an appropriate software budget, activities such as installing security software, setting up user accounts, and configuring lab systems can require significant time and labor resources. In a conventional environment, it may also require a dedicated computer lab for each security class. In a given educational environment, obtaining these resources may be problematic.To mitigate these problems, we developed a "hand on" security design process that utilizes Live CDs and Open Source tools. By definition, a Live CD is a bootable CD that contains a complete operating system. Many Live CDs also include useful security utilities. In our security classes, we have utilized both general purpose Live CDs, such as Knoppix, and dedicated security centric Live CDs, such as Auditor. [8] In addition to being self configuring, Live CDs may also be remastered to accommodate additional security tools and related information.This paper presents an overview of our experiences developing "hands on" security activities with Live CD and Open Source components. Our "hands on" activities were developed to support our four course security specialization. To provide a context for this, we first present a brief overview of the security specialization.