Setting up and using a cyber security lab for education purposes
Alexandru G. Bardas, Xinming Ou · Journal of computing sciences in colleges · 2013
An indispensable component of cyber security education is hands-on activities carried out in a lab to enable students to understand both offense and defense aspects of the cyber space. We describe our design and implementation of this course, and a resulting student organization Cyber Defense Club (CDC), at Kansas State University. Our 1.5-year experience in teaching this course and advising the CDC activities, including taking a team to compete in the regional Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC), shows that cyber security is very attractive to students especially when they have an environment dedicated for this type of activities.