EDURange: hands-on cybersecurity exercises in the cloud
RICHARD S. WEISS, Jens Mache, Michael E. Locasto · Journal of computing sciences in colleges · 2014
Incorporating cybersecurity into the undergraduate curriculum is a topic of continuing interest. This topic has been included as a core knowledge area in the ACM/IEEE CS2013 Curricula Guidelines [1]. The goal of this workshop is to provide faculty who may only have little experience in cybersecurity with a framework and some of our most recent scenarios that would facilitate incorporating this topic into the Computer Science curriculum. Building on previous similar workshops [2, 3], this tutorial focuses on the design of two hands-on exercises that we have developed on Amazon's AWS cloud environment. The first exercise is a network reconnaissance exercise, and the second is about detecting malicious binaries (Elf infection). Participants will learn how to use the EDURange framework. Taking on the role of player, participants will learn about network security and malware. As the instructor, they will learn how to use these security exercises in the classroom, and how to create scenarios that they can use for their classes.