Instructor Assistant

The student on this project was able to assist one of the university department instructors teach his security class.   The student helped the instructor grade quizzes and exams. Project Student: Daniel Hoge

Hard Drive DBAN

During this project the students were asked to wipe the hard drives that were given to the university.  The data that was currently residing on the hard drives was really important to the donator so they team needed to be sure they completely wiped the data from them.  One of the students set up five…

Network Analyzer Software Package Research

The student that worked on this project was asked to gather information on various network analyzer software packages.  These packages included Packet Motion, Varonis, NetIQ, S3 Control, Tripwire, and HP.  The information that they gathered on each package includes vendor, product, solution, supported platforms, overview, change tracking, registry tracking, database audit, network dev. Audit, active…

FreeNas

Throughout the duration of this project the student installed FreeNas.  FreeNAS stands for free Network Attached Storage. The students began by using a laptop, a keyboard, a mouse, and a CD with the download.  When the students tried to boot from the CD to do install FreeNAS, it always crashed.  They tried burning a new…

SNORT

The desired outcome of this project was to get the Snort server configured and operational.  Snort is an open source network intrusion detection system. In order to complete this project the student finalized all configurations on the rules and settings for the server. However, during the semester the Snort server temporarily went down due to…

Nagios Server Backup

The goal of this project was to ensure the Nagios software that was installed was functioning properly on the active server.  Some of the tasks the student completed for this project included research on Nagios server and its offered features, create documentation on the various features.  The student ran into issues that involved Nagios working…

New Ghost Server Build

The goal of this project was to create a new Ghost server due for lab rooms located in an university department.  This needed to be done because of the decline in the old server.  The student tested the new server to make sure the hardware was functioning properly and set the hard drives in raid…

University Department Computers

This project arose when the students who used Ghost to push images to an university department’s lab was having problems with one row of computers.  This row nearly always failed to obtain an IP address after a push from the Ghost server.  After much consideration and collaboration with others it was decided that it must…

Windows Server Update Service

The students on this project worked on a way to distribute Windows updates from a central server in the lab.  This would enable them to control which updates were applied and when, from a central location.  This would allow them to reliably keep the labs patched and up to date throughout the week. Student Team…

Interns Folder Schema

The goal of this project was to organize the Interns folder.  This is where the students of an university department upload and store information about the projects they are currently working on.  It also contains past students project information.  The students grouped similar folder files together under new parent folders and put unknown files and…