Upgrading Network Infrastructure

A local not-for-profit that serves the youth is seeking IT Consultants from the IUPUI Living Lab. Students will be performing technical support, managing network systems, and performing upgrades. In addition, students will help resolve everyday support tickets for the organization. Projects included rebuilding server when it went down, troubleshooting NAS after server was back up, and…

SCCM

An On-Campus IT Group has deployed SCCM. They have commissioned me to aid in helping with client deployments. As this is still fairly new to them, there is still much to learn. Mostly, I will be dealing with client deployments to ensure that we have an 85%, or more, compliance rating with our GPOs.

Build Identity Finder Server

An on-campus IT group wants to manage and protect its sensitive data using the Identity Finder Software on a dedicated Server. The Software will be deployed to the clients through a Group Policy which installs the software. Once the software is installed, the clients will be managed through a central console server. This server is…

POE Camera Team

The POE Camera project involves the use of Power over Ethernet Cameras to improve current visual coverage and theft prevention. To begin, we had to schedule interviews with our clients from the University Course to record their requests and create a list of requirements. Our next step of action was to research appropriate security camera…

Server Upgrade

We have been assigned to a not for profit company that is a continuation of last semester. Previously we have installed a wireless network for the client, and this semester our new task is to upgrade their current 2003 server to two 2008 servers. We are also the first line of IT help for the…

New Computer Image

The purpose of this project was to create a computer image for a University Department.  The initial process was quite simple; install an Operating System followed by various programs, suites, as well as updates to them. After the installation, the next step was to create a back up of the image, and then begin the…

ET005 Infrastructure

ET005 had several patch panels and a lot of unused cable which was not appealing and creating clutter in the lab. For the project, the group removed all the old cabling, then planned and ran new cable according the the client’s request, which allowed for expand-ability by providing Ethernet ports for laptops,  keeping the lab…

JagWaRz / CIT 406 Challenge Development

JagWaRz is an educational gaming platform created at IUPUI. The goal of JagWaRz is to educate students by challenging them and rewarding them for completing security challenges; similar to challenge/reward systems found in video games. Our project focuses on creating challenges for JagWaRz and the course CIT 406 Advanced Network Security. Update: We created challenges…

Network Security Monitoring with Snort

The goal for this project is to be able to monitor multiple networks with a program called Snort. Snort is an intrusion detection system that can be used for monitoring network traffic. It’s a signature-based IDS that uses rules or signatures to alert an administrator when unwanted traffic matches a signature. We’re using a Linux-based…