Using Raspberry Pi as a Platform for Teaching Cybersecurity Concepts

Cotoranu, Andreea; Chen, Li-Chiou

doi:10.1145/3287324.3287534

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“…The ScriptKitty project [2] introduced middle school and early high school students to cyber security concepts using the Raspberry Pi. A recent SIGCSE workshop [6] also discussed how to use Raspberry Pis to integrate security concepts into high school and college-level curricula, including NSA GenCyber summer camps.…”

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Teaching Web-Attacks on a Raspberry Pi Cyber Range

Stickney

Hawthorne

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education

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Cyber ranges are an important tool for teaching cyber security techniques. However, setting up a cyber range for classroom use can be costly. Prior work on lowering the cost of cyber ranges focuses on open source solutions and virtual machines. Yet, these solutions do not reduce the cost of physical components-namely, the underlying hardware used to build the range. In this paper, we describe a prototype cyber range built out of Raspberry Pis, a type of inexpensive single board computer. To illustrate the functionality of the range, we use Docker and Docker Swarm to deploy a vulnerable web server across four Raspberry Pi nodes and assess it in an undergraduate classroom. Our cyber range costs under $250.00 to build and consumes less than 25 Watts of power. We open-source our materials and provide pre-built Docker images on Docker Hub to enable others to use our work. Our results suggest that cyber ranges built using Raspberry Pi clusters can lower cost and enhance cyber security education. CCS CONCEPTS • Applied computing → Education; • Security and privacy → Vulnerability management; • Computer systems organization → Embedded and cyber-physical systems.

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confidence: 99%