School of Engineering and Technology
During the semester project in CIT 420, it was noted that banking apps for iPhone store some sensitive data in plain text. This semester in Living Lab a similar process is going to be used to see what similar banking applications store on an Android Phone. The apps will be downloaded from the Google Play…
Monitored and studied network to isolate and eliminate performance hindering problems. First, an extra DHCP server had been installed unintentionally and the service was shut down. The actual DHCP server was then found to be issuing old DNS information and causing an extreme lag when DNS always had to be routed to the secondary Google…
The Living Lab serves the students by giving them opportunities to have hands on experience in networking, security, and many other CIT departments. Every year new students gets to know about the work that the Living Lab provides. It is important to acknowledge them about policies and the procedures in the lab while they use the computer…
Room 007 is a certified testing center and had only 2 cameras for coverage, aside from that the 007 and 005 rooms house important workstations and network devices for the campus, external clients, and the server room. There was a serious need to monitor all the activities of 007 and 005. The project was to install…
The Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is a role for Windows Server that provides a means to easy the bandwidth during updates. The server downloads the updates from Microsoft and stores them locally on the hard drive. After the download an administrator needs to login on each workstation and runs Windows Update. This is during…
Living Lab administrators requested an updated logo for use in representing the Living Lab. The administrators requested that the logo exemplify a transformation in students as well as an association with technology. The logo should include Purdue colors so as to match up with their media kit. The project began with a portal design and…
Worked with WordPress to create a website for a non-profit organization. The main purpose of this project was implementing a website that can draw more attention and donations to the organization. Another purpose was to let users edit the site without any assistance from IT professionals. Project Student: Jin Zheng
The client requested a database for the purpose of tracking service tickets and their status. The database is designed to store data on projects and provide easy viewing for their current status. Through trial and error, I discovered that the uniteAll command would not permit the user to edit any entries in the queries, so…
Security Onion is a Ubuntu-based Linux distribution intended to be used as an IDS (intrusion detection system). It contains several security software tools. The Living Lab already had a server with Security Onion running. We spent some time near the end of the semester getting the existing system running and finally configuring the IDS in…
The Cyber Security Open is a convention that the Living Lab will host, intended for beginners and professionals interested in the field of security. It is broken into 5 different missions. We went through, ran through the missions, and familiarized ourselves with them. We also updated the existing setups for each mission so they would be…