School of Engineering and Technology
The goal of this project was to ensure the Nagios software that was installed was functioning properly on the active server. Some of the tasks the student completed for this project included research on Nagios server and its offered features, create documentation on the various features. The student ran into issues that involved Nagios working…
The goal of this project was to build a Snort Intrusion Detection System (IDS) to monitor sections of an university department. The initial parameters for the project were for the server to be built in a virtual environment, for the server to have MySQL database on the back end which would be populated with alerts,…
Nagios is a monitoring system that allows you to resolve issues in an IT infrastructure before the problems affect the main business processes. This monitoring system offers alerts for servers, applications, services, and switches. Overall this project taught the student how to install and configure Nagios in a Linux environment. In the end the student…
Network Policy Server (NPS) can be used as a Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) server to perform authentication, authorization, and accounting for RADIUS clients. A RADIUS client can be an access server, such as a dial-up server or wireless access point, or a RADIUS proxy. For this student project the student learned how to…
With this student project the students were responsible for installing and testing SNORT, and open source Intrusion Detection System. Overall, the key focus of the project was to be able to run SNORT in a Debian Linux environment which also had libpcap, libdnet, and DAQ installed. Student Team Members: Jin Hong, Robert VanHentenryck
The project for this semester was to redesign labs that are used to teach the Digital Forensics Class at an university department. Essentially 15 forensics laptop kits were created for future students. These kits included a laptop with windows XP, an external hard drive, and a flash drive. In addition to the kits, the student…
The focus of this project included installing a hard drive and troubleshooting it using digital forensic tools. The problem with the hard drive installed was the hard drives already located in the machine had the same jumper. To resolve this issue, the student changed one hard drive to be the primary and the other to…
This project consisted of the students using DBAN software to wipe 56 hard drives. Eight computers were used to complete this project in a timely fashion. Student Team Members: Ahmd Al Guqhaiman, Jamie Hill
The goal of this project was to manage the Untangle Gateway firewall throughout the semester. One of the parts of this project was to create a rule within the firewall via the GUI that allowed FTP traffic into the network. The student then managed the firewall by checking the logs and confirming every week that…
At the start of this project the goal was to upgrade the operating system and the core. While trying to accomplish this, the hard drive crashed which then forced the student to make the decision to virtualize this server. Project Student: Chris Kulaga