Not-For-Profit General Support

Before our first meeting I created a logical network map through the help of Lucid Chart. Once the first meeting was over and the area was toured, I went back and revised it. Clay helped me with the revision. I added things on there like servers, switches, and access points. A Not-For-Profit group needs help setting up a…

Installing a new bootloader

This project is about finding and installing a new boot loader onto a test computer so it can later be done on a lab computer for the client. The requirements for the project include; making sure that it is freeware and making sure one partition is only visible when using the other partition. This was…

TOR Search Engine Using Apache Nutch

A local educational institution requested assistance with their TOR web crawler project. The objective was to create a database of malicious files found through visiting websites on The Onion Router network. The software used for this project was Apache Nutch, Elasticsearch, and Kibana. The overall problem was that Nutch wouldn’t send crawled data to its specified…

pfSense Firewall for Educational Institution

A local educational institution requested assistance with replacement of their current firewall for their small data center. The Living Lab team was tasked with configuring an open-source firewall known as “pfSense” and properly swapping out existing software with no interruptions to service. The team created VLANs that only communicate between specified networks for security. The…

ASP.net 4.0 Website

A local company in Central Indiana currently uses spreadsheets to track all their company data. This project moves their data to a SQL Server and interfaces the database with an ASP.net website written in C#. Security has been added to project using Microsoft .net membership profiles and roles. The site uses Secure Socket Layer encryption to…

Create Malware Analysis Lab

A local educational institution requested a malware analysis lab.  The lab will allow students to have hands on experience in reverse engineering malware, and malware analysis.  Students will be able to go to a website and fill out a web form to create a virtual machine.  A python script will be used to take the…

Database Game

The university is in need of a complete database for students to practice queries on.  The front end will be in the form of a game with query results.  The students will need to rewrite the queries to get the same results.  The game can be used for beginners writing simple SQL queries, and also…

GRR Rapid Response (GRR) for Living Lab

GRR Rapid Response (GRR) is a remote live forensics tool that empowers administrators with data-collecting capabilities for troubleshooting and health checks.  It is an open-source project that is highly scalable, customizable, and flexible.  GRR is based on a client/server architecture.  An agent is installed on a target machine.  After deployment, a machine becomes a GRR…

Building Intrusion Detection Systems

Overview: The purpose of the project is to build an Intrusion Detection System (IDS), Suricata and Bro IDS, on the Living Lab server in order to monitor network traffics, extract files, and send all logs and alerts to ELK stack. Then, all logs and alerts should be visualized through the ELK stack. Suricata is a…