Welcome to the Living Lab

The Living Lab is a revolutionary place where students can bridge the gap between classroom knowledge and real-world experience by working on projects that the lab receives from both internal and external clients. Living Lab is a 3-credit, semester-long course in the CIT department that offers students an alternative learning structure and resume-worthy IT experience.

New Living Lab Domain

The Living Lab Website is outdated and not very attractive. A new website is being made for the Lab, and needs a theme and new organization. Themes were researched first, finding a theme that isn’t too image-reliant, because the Living Lab has lots of text but not very many image. The theme has been selected, and…

Fake News DB

A University course has a new Fake News project, where a system is being developed to automatically identify fake news articles.  As a part of this project, a database server needs to be configured to store news articles that will be captured by a web scraper.  The solution is a machine running a database software…

Security Analyst – IDS/IPS

The university course’s campus network already has an Intrusion Detection System in place. The intrusion detection system’s current status is that it is not functioning properly in some regards. The system produces “false positives”, or alerts that are triggered by harmless sources on the network at an aggressive level.  The system could also be improved…

Living Lab Domain

The Domain Network Management is a project that involves using a local domain controller and implementing network wide configurations on network assets. The project scope involves 44 computer systems that obtained their computer configurations and user settings from the domain controller. The project required many hours of troubleshooting, problem-solving, documenting, and setting configuration that the network…

JagWarz Expansion Project

JagWarz is a gaming website with a functioning and interactive game database designed for individuals interested in network security. The project has been in development since 2013. The scope for this project is to complete a functioning RvB game that allows the admin to assign users to teams and store the information in a database….