Counter hack: Creating a context for a cyber forensics course

DeLooze, Lori L.

doi:10.1109/fie.2008.4720283

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“…In practical assignments students use the same methods and tools that hackers with malicious intent use to gain access to information. The usage of practical assignments in computer security is performed as part of many computer security courses, such as in forensics [5], in education on spam [6] and in social engineering [7]. We believe that students need to understand the hacking mentality and see how an adversary would attack also in the physical and the social domain of information security.…”

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Training students to steal

Dimkov

Pieters

Hartel

2011

Proceedings of the 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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Practical courses in information security provide students with first-hand knowledge of technical security mechanisms and their weaknesses. However, teaching students only the technical side of information security leads to a generation of students that emphasize digital solutions, but ignore the physical and the social aspects of security. In the last two years we devised a course where students were given a practical assignment which includes a combination of physical security, social engineering and digital penetration testing. As part of the course, the students stole laptops using social engineering from unaware employees throughout the university campus. The assignment provided the students with a practical overview of security and increased their awareness of the strengths and weaknesses of security mechanisms. In this paper we present the design of the practical assignment and the observations from the execution.

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Section: Figure 1: Computer Security In Contextmentioning

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“…The second and third exercise can be considered as a reproduction of exercises reported by other authors [5,11,12]. …”

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Training students to steal

Dimkov

Pieters

Hartel

2011

Proceedings of the 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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“…The second and third exercise can be considered as a reproduction of exercises reported by other authors [37,68,13]. …”

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“…In practical assignments students use the same methods and tools that hackers with malicious intent use to gain access to information. The usage of practical assignments in computer security is performed as part of many computer security courses, such as in forensics [37], in education on spam [95] and in social engineering [42]. We believe that students need to understand the hacking mentality and see how an adversary would attack also in the physical and the social domain of information security.…”

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Alignment of organizational security policies : theory and practice

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Counter hack: Creating a context for a cyber forensics course

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Training students to steal

Training students to steal

Alignment of organizational security policies : theory and practice

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