article

Using an isolated network laboratory to teach advanced networks and security

Authors:

John M. D. Hill,

Curtis A. Carver, Jr.,

Jeffrey W. Humphries,

Udo W. PoochAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 33, Issue 1

Pages 36 - 40

https://doi.org/10.1145/366413.364533

Published: 01 February 2001 Publication History

Get Access

Abstract

This paper discusses the use of an isolated network laboratory to teach computer security using persistent cooperative groups and an active learning approach. Computer security and computer security education are areas of increasing importance as computer systems become more interconnected. When offered, undergraduate and graduate computer security courses are routinely taught using a traditional lecture format. If the course includes a class project, the class project is limited in scope and constitutes a relatively small portion of the student's grade. This paper examines a different approach in which the class project is the dominant factor in the student's grade. The students work in persistent cooperative teams as either a black or gold team. Black teams attempt to break into other black team computers or attack the gold team. The gold team operates Windows NT, LINUX, and Solaris-based servers and attempts to defend their servers and role-play system administrators. The entire exercise takes place in an isolated lab so as to separate student class activities from the rest of the departmental intranet. Four years of experience running the class with this format suggests that the use of persistent cooperative groups and active learning are effective approaches for teaching network security and are preferred over a lecture-based course.

References

[1]

Barnett, S., "Computer Security Training and Education: A Needs Analysis," IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Los Alarnitos, CA, May 6-8, 1996, pp. 26-27.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[2]

Bishop, M., "Computer Security in Introductory Programming Classes," Workshop on Education in Computer Security, Monterey, CA, January 29-31, 1997, pp. 1-2.

Google Scholar

[3]

Bishop, M., "The State of INFOSEC Education in Academia: Present and Future Directions," Information Systems Security Education Colloquium, Maryland, April 23-24, 1997, pp. 19-33.

Google Scholar

[4]

Bishop, M. and Heberlein, L. T., "An Isolated Network for Research," 19th National Information Systems Security Conference, Baltimore, MD, October 22-25, 1996, pp. 349-360.

Google Scholar

[5]

Chin, S.-K., Irvine, C. E., and Frinke, D., "An Information Security Education Initiative for Engineering and Computer Science," Technical Report NPSCS-97-003,Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, December 1997.

Google Scholar

[6]

Clark, D. D., Computers at Risk: Safe Computing in the Information Age, Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1991.

Google Scholar

[7]

Clinton, W., "Executive Order 13010 - Critical Infrastructure Protection," Available at http://www.ciao.gov/PCCIP/PCCIP_index.htm, {September 5, 2000}.

Google Scholar

[8]

Higgins, J., "Information Security as a Topic in Undergraduate Education of Computer Scientists," Twelfth National computer Security Conference, Baltimore, MD, October 10, 1989, pp. 553-557.

Google Scholar

[9]

Irvine, C. E., Warren, D. F., and Clark, P. C., "The NPS CISR Graduate Program in INFOSEC Education: Six Years of Experience," 20th National Information Systems Security Conference, Baltimore, MD, October, 1997, pp. 22-30.

Google Scholar

[10]

Irvine, C. E., Warren, D. F., and Stemp, R., "Teaching Introductory Computer Security at a Department of Defense University," Technical Report NPSCS-97- 002, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, April 1997.

Google Scholar

[11]

Marsh, R. T., "Critical Foundations: Protecting America's Infrastructure," President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, October 1997.

Google Scholar

[12]

Spafford, E. H., "February 1997 Testimony before the United States House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Technology, Computer and Network Security," Available at http://www.house.gov/science/hearing.htm, {September 8, 2000}.

Google Scholar

[13]

Spillman, R. J., "A Computer Security Course in the Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum," Collegiate Microcomputer, Vol. 10, 1992, pp. 91-96.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

Cited By

View all

Trabelsi ZMcCoey MWang Y(2022)Teaching Offensive Lab SkillsResearch Anthology on Advancements in Cybersecurity Education10.4018/978-1-6684-3554-0.ch012(273-287)Online publication date: 2022
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-3554-0.ch012
Fraire JDuran J(2021)Revising Computer Science Networking Hands-On Courses in the Context of the Future InternetIEEE Transactions on Education10.1109/TE.2020.301567364:2(133-138)Online publication date: May-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/TE.2020.3015673
Alexander CMa LCai ZCheng W(2021)Eureka Labs: Enhancing Cybersecurity Education through Inquiry-based Hands-on Activities2021 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing, Advanced & Trusted Computing, Scalable Computing & Communications, Internet of People and Smart City Innovation (SmartWorld/SCALCOM/UIC/ATC/IOP/SCI)10.1109/SWC50871.2021.00082(552-557)Online publication date: Oct-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/SWC50871.2021.00082
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

Using an isolated network laboratory to teach advanced networks and security
1. Security and privacy
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Computing / technology policy
    1. Computer crime
  2. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Model curricula

Recommendations

Using an isolated network laboratory to teach advanced networks and security
SIGCSE '01: Proceedings of the thirty-second SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer Science Education

This paper discusses the use of an isolated network laboratory to teach computer security using persistent cooperative groups and an active learning approach. Computer security and computer security education are areas of increasing importance as ...
Teaching how to teach computational thinking
ITiCSE 2018: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

Computational Thinking is argued to be an essential skill for the workforce of the 21st century. As a skill, Computational Thinking should be taught in all schools, employing computational ideas integrated into other disciplines. Up until now, questions ...
Design of a computer security teaching and research laboratory (abstract only)
SIGCSE '12: Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education

To enhance the learning process a certain amount of hands-on experience is desirable to supplement the theory portion of computer security-related courses. This includes courses in information assurance, database security, computer security and computer ...

Comments

Please enable JavaScript to view thecomments powered by Disqus.

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 33, Issue 1

March 2001

432 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/366413

Editor:
John Impagliazzo
103 Hofstra Univ., Hempstead, NY

Issue’s Table of Contents

SIGCSE '01: Proceedings of the thirty-second SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer Science Education
February 2001
456 pages
ISBN:1581133294
DOI:10.1145/364447
Chairmen:
Henry Walker
Grinnell College
,
Renée McCauley
College of Charleston
,
Judith Gersting
Univ. of Hawaii at Hilo
,
Ingrid Russell
Univ. of Hartford

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 01 February 2001

Published in SIGCSE Volume 33, Issue 1

Check for updates

Qualifiers

Article

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

101
Total Citations
View Citations
1,317
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)9
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)2

Reflects downloads up to 16 Nov 2024

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

View all

Trabelsi ZMcCoey MWang Y(2022)Teaching Offensive Lab SkillsResearch Anthology on Advancements in Cybersecurity Education10.4018/978-1-6684-3554-0.ch012(273-287)Online publication date: 2022
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-3554-0.ch012
Fraire JDuran J(2021)Revising Computer Science Networking Hands-On Courses in the Context of the Future InternetIEEE Transactions on Education10.1109/TE.2020.301567364:2(133-138)Online publication date: May-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/TE.2020.3015673
Alexander CMa LCai ZCheng W(2021)Eureka Labs: Enhancing Cybersecurity Education through Inquiry-based Hands-on Activities2021 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing, Advanced & Trusted Computing, Scalable Computing & Communications, Internet of People and Smart City Innovation (SmartWorld/SCALCOM/UIC/ATC/IOP/SCI)10.1109/SWC50871.2021.00082(552-557)Online publication date: Oct-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/SWC50871.2021.00082
Trabelsi ZMcCoey MWang Y(2020)Teaching Offensive Lab SkillsHandbook of Research on Diverse Teaching Strategies for the Technology-Rich Classroom10.4018/978-1-7998-0238-9.ch011(138-152)Online publication date: 2020
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-0238-9.ch011
Zhou NCao YJacob SRichardson D(2020)Teacher Perceptions of Equity in High School Computer Science ClassroomsACM Transactions on Computing Education10.1145/341063320:3(1-27)Online publication date: 28-Aug-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3410633
Alappat CBasermann ABishop AFehske HHager GSchenk OThies JWellein G(2020)A Recursive Algebraic Coloring Technique for Hardware-efficient Symmetric Sparse Matrix-vector MultiplicationACM Transactions on Parallel Computing10.1145/33997327:3(1-37)Online publication date: 29-Jun-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3399732
Grolaux DVanderdonckt JNguyen TKhaddam I(2020)SketchADoodle: Touch-surface Multi-stroke Gesture Handling by Bézier CurvesProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/33978754:EICS(1-30)Online publication date: 18-Jun-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3397875
Turner JBowen JReeves S(2020)Model-based Testing of Interactive Systems using Interaction SequencesProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/33978734:EICS(1-37)Online publication date: 18-Jun-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3397873
Prvan MOžEGOVIć J(2020)Methods in Teaching Computer NetworksACM Transactions on Computing Education10.1145/339496320:3(1-35)Online publication date: 16-Jun-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3394963
Ahmad FAbbasi ALi JDobolyi DNetemeyer RClifford GChen H(2020)A Deep Learning Architecture for Psychometric Natural Language ProcessingACM Transactions on Information Systems10.1145/336521138:1(1-29)Online publication date: 5-Feb-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3365211
Show More Cited By

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Cited By

Index Terms

Recommendations

Using an isolated network laboratory to teach advanced networks and security

Teaching how to teach computational thinking

Design of a computer security teaching and research laboratory (abstract only)