School of Engineering and Technology
This project involves working with a Fortune 500 company’s cybersecurity team. It involves a lot of meetings that are about some of the current projects that they are currently working on like the Phishme campaigns, implementing two-factor authentication for vendors, maintaining user credentials on applications or requiring that the vendor do so. Aside from meetings…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A local organization offers different facilities for rent to the public for special occasions, like wedding receptions and business-related events. Previous students created a JavaScript plugin that allows users to create custom-made floorplans online. This is done by a “drag-n-drop” menu, in which users can arrange tables and chairs on a floorplan of their choice…
This project incorporates many facets of security for computer systems and the network they are on. The client wanted the possible vulnerabilities and threats to their network and systems documented. If any are found, the job is to find solutions to mitigate and or remove those possible problems. Many security tools such as OpenVAS and…