School of Engineering and Technology
A university department wants to add a news feature to its existing website. The news section is designed to be dynamic, flexible, and maintainable. It is composed of scrolling photos that will be linked to descriptive internal article pages, or to external pages. It will also have a scrolling video feed that will be linked…
The purpose of the Openfiler project was to replace the old existing NAS hardware in the server room with some updated storage spaces. Three desktop PCs were re-purposed with four 160 GB hard-drives each. Openfiler software was installed on all of them and RAID 5 was configure on the hard-drives using the Openfiler web client….
The purpose of CITCON project was to create an environment that students can come into and test their security knowledge against our systems. Our challenges include WEP Cracking, Cryptanalysis, Remote Exploitation Attacks, and Web-App Hacking. This allows students to go through process of discovery, information gathering, risk assessment, exploitation, and exfiltration. Students will get a flag for…
The SNORT project is a continuation of building up a network security monitoring server to monitor the networks of classrooms located in a basement. There will be 2 phases that need to be accomplished. The software that would be using to monitor the network would be “SNORT” , an Intrusion Detection Software. Phase 1: Snort…
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…