Pen Pix Firewall

This project involved the PEN which is a mobile rack that contains routers, switches, servers, and the firewall.  The students completed tasks such as setting the firewalls passwords, interfaces, DHCP, SSH, NAT Translation and DNS forwarding   Student Team Members: Corey Small, Mark Mitchell

Flip Camera

The client for this project was the an university department.  They wanted to use the flip camera to take videos of their patients but still needed to be compliant with the HIPPA regulations.  The videos that were recorded needed to be permanently erased without the ability to recover them. The student also needed to find…

Protocol Research

The main goal of this project was based on giving students hands-on experience through labs by researching protocols, then using applications to see how it works in an encrypted environment.  The student focused on making more focused labs on how the protocols work, how it handles data, and how its data is transferred. The four…

Nagios

This project was to implement Nagios for the client to monitor servers.  The student decided to install Ubuntu Server version in order to proceed with this project.  Next, Nagios was installed on the server by going through Ubutnu’s repositories.  The student then installed an SSH server.  In order to start monitoring, NSClient++ is needed on…

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…

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…

SNORT

The goal of this project was to build a Snort Intrusion Detection System (IDS) to monitor sections of an university department.  The initial parameters for the project were for the server to be built in a virtual environment, for the server to have MySQL database on the back end which would be populated with alerts,…

Nagios

Nagios is a monitoring system that allows you to resolve issues in an IT infrastructure before the problems affect the main business processes.  This monitoring system offers alerts for servers, applications, services, and switches.  Overall this project taught the student how to install and configure Nagios in a Linux environment.  In the end the student…