University Sponsored Training Organization Website

A University Sponsored Training Organization’s website has an existing website that lists the courses offered by the organization. The current website contains some information about the organization, but this information needs to be organized in a way that makes it easier to use. Therefore, the main goal of this project is to develop the website…

Training & Testing Environment for VMware vSphere

VMware vSphere is an all-encompassing name given to VMware’s virtualization suite for deployments large and small.  It includes a level 1 hypervisor (ESXi), and vCenter Server for managing hosts, virtual datacenters, virtual server clusters, and more. One main objective of this project is to incorporate multiple physical hosts into clusters which can utilize vSphere’s vMotion…

Network and Infrastructure Stabilization

This projects focuses on assisting a local organization throughout the semester with several of their goals and needs. The priority is the evaluation of and then stabilization of the company’s local wired and wireless network. The network has several known issues and is a constant source of frustration on their campus. Once that is complete, there…

Cybersecurity Internship

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…

Fake News Article Analysis

The goal of the project was to perform data analysis on the provided data set containing articles in order to gain meaningful insights on how the leading online news agencies write the articles. There are currently many data analysis tools that can be used independently and together to analyze data. One of those tools include…

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…