School of Engineering and Technology
A not-for-profit company that a university department at an university has been helping since the fall of 2012. From the documentation that I have been able to find on this not-for-profit company, the university department has built this companies network from the ground up. This not-for-profit company is so much farther along now than when the university department started, but…
An Indiana company conducts genetic research on plants. The IT manager of the company contacted us for assistance in looking into the security of their network. They already had another company that was performing monthly checks on their network. Research was done to find how that company gained access to the network to ensure safe…
This project had the initial goal of streamlining the a compnay’s payroll system and updating to a new version of QuickBooks. After a meeting with the client, interviewing employees, and gathering information about their current system, the project took another direction. It was viewed that the needs of this client were much greater than just…
The goal of this project is to set up an intrusion detection system that monitors network ports and reports any alerts to a database. The second part of this project is to have an external sensor reporting to the main sensors database. Project Student: Alejandro Gonzalez
The idea of this project was to research, develop, and build a small Linux-based cluster for the purpose of installing VMware Server on an Ubuntu Linux Server build. The virtual environment would then be able to provide an environment for experimental operating system builds. It would also be used by students to study the actual…
An university department is in charge of managing the accounts on the servers that students use to test and store projects. The main purpose of this project is to add and delete accounts based on an expiration date. In order to accomplish that, Linux scripts were used to create new accounts, including rules to properly…
The not-for-profit organization is looking to create a gaming environment for their patients in order to promote an active and engaged atmosphere. This project involves creating and documenting all security controls necessary for a public gaming computer. Once completed, the children will be able to play games while being prevented from accessing system settings. Project…
Every semester the university department engineers are responsible for creating user accounts on different machines to fulfill course requirements. The goal of this project was to create a policy to give the engineers guidelines on the accounts that are being created. These guidelines include but are not limited to how long the accounts should exist…
The goal of this project was to have a network monitoring system that monitors the availability of each server in the university department. Nagios was the software that was used to fulfill the needs of this project. The team installed Nagios onto a server and then logged the servers that needed to be monitored. After…
The department was moved from the one building on campus to another building on campus. To decrease the amount of downtime for the department, the servers were brought to the new location and quickly set up. Organization was not the first priority during the initial move, but it is for this project. In order to…