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Network reconnaissance, attack, and defense laboratories for an introductory cyber-security course

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ACM Inroads, Volume 4, Issue 3

Pages 52 - 64

https://doi.org/10.1145/2505990.2506002

Published: 01 September 2013 Publication History

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Cyber-security is an area in which much curriculum development is taking place; it is important that such efforts be evaluated and shared. We describe three laboratories developed at the United States Naval Academy (USNA) for use in its fundamentals of cyber-security course. All three labs are conducted in a sandboxed virtual environment. Detailed instructor notes, student instructions, worksheets, grading guidance and supporting course software were developed for these labs. In this paper we share our experiences with these labs, assessment and evaluation material, and lessons learned so that others might benefit from our work.

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Network reconnaissance, attack, and defense laboratories for an introductory cyber-security course
1. General and reference
  1. Cross-computing tools and techniques
    1. Evaluation
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
    2. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Software management
        Software selection and adaptation

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September 2013

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DOI:10.1145/2505990

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Rana SGarg UGupta N(2021)Reconnaissance Attacks: A First Step to Hack IoT Devices and Cyber CrimeComputational Intelligence in Pattern Recognition10.1007/978-981-16-2543-5_16(183-194)Online publication date: 5-Sep-2021
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https://doi.org/10.1080/08993408.2016.1271526
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