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ERIC Number: EJ1173664
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Feb
Pages: 13
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: EISSN-1545-679X
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ViNEL: A Virtual Networking Lab for Cyber Defense Education
Reinicke, Bryan; Baker, Elizabeth; Toothman, Callie
Information Systems Education Journal, v16 n1 p61-73 Feb 2018
Professors teaching cyber security classes often face challenges when developing workshops for their students: How does one quickly and efficiently configure and deploy an operating system for a temporary learning/testing environment? Faculty teaching these classes spend countless hours installing, configuring and deploying multiple system configurations only to decommission the operating system after needed usage is complete. This paper presents a system that was developed to significantly reduce testing environment setup times by establishing a virtual networking lab (ViNeL) that allowed a cyber defense club at a public regional university to spin up an entire network of virtual machines to simulate business environments and prepare for competitions. The application also allowed club members to launch a single operating system for lab style experimentation. The application uses the remote desktop protocol (RDP) to make it platform independent. Built using Oracle VirtualBox on a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP), the virtual networking lab is completely open source and can be implemented on a variety of server hardware configurations. Details on the development and implementation are presented to aid in the development of similar systems in different environments.
Information Systems and Computing Academic Professionals. Box 488, Wrightsville Beach, NC 28480. e-mail: publisher@isedj.org; Web site: http://isedj.org
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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