Best Practices for Applying Sonification to Support Teaching and Learning of Network Intrusion Detection
Miguel Á. García-Ruiz, Miguel Vargas Martín, Bill Kapralos, Jay Shiro Tashiro, Ricardo Acosta-Díaz · EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology · 2010
A Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) supports the network administrator's decision on what to do regarding a network attack. Teaching and training on the use of NIDSs and network intrusion detection in general is not a trivial task for a number of reasons, including the vast amount of visual-based data output by a typical NIDS and network log that students must analyze. To overcome this, sonification (the use of sound parameters to convey meaningful information) can be useful to augment the visual data and therefore support the teaching of NIDSs and network status. However, little is known on how to effectively incorporate sonification in educational and training settings. Based on our previous sonification research that includes usability tests on NIDS sonification, this paper presents a preliminary set of best practices on applying sonification to support teaching of network intrusion detection in the conventional classroom.