Syslog/Event Log Server

With this project the student was responsible for configuring audit policies on the host machines.  To do this the student had to turn on Success and Failure auditing for the Audit Logon Events policy, as well as configure the Special Logon/Logoff and Other Logon/Logoff policies.  The student was also required to configure the firewall on…

Dual OS Deployment

A university department is an approved testing facility for a regional testing group.  For this particular project the students purchased new hard drives and partitioned them into two separate partitions.  The students then created an image of Windows 7, Office 2010, Visual Studio 2010, and accounting software.  A second image contained a network image for…

Indiana Company Scanner Project

The Indiana Company Scanner Project consisted of installing scanning software on over 100 remote locations.  The scanning software is provided by another company and will be used for the locations to scan their receipts.  This project would take at most 7 installations, and approximately 15 minutes per installation.  Overall this project provided the students with…

Network Log Monitoring

The project was to find a way to manage logs that the computer creates for different events. The requirements for the project were that the log manager needed to be used in both Linux and Windows environments, alerted when the local admin logged into the server, and provide viewable log events when someone logged into the server remotely or locally….

Vulnerability Management

The goal of this project is to find free software that can monitor the labs that are used by students and a university department.  This software needs to be able to monitor the network by detecting devices that are connected and disconnected from the network, alert the appropriate person when unauthorized software has been added…

Network Port Auditing

Nmap is an open source program that stands for Network mapping and it’s used for Device discovery and Security Auditing. This program would allow you to know the ports status, therefore knowing which ports are being used.  The project goal was to use Nmap to generate scan reports that can be used through an Nmap…

Security Camera Installation

The purpose of this project was to allow users to monitor activity in a room of their choice.  Among these capabilities are: motion detection, recording, audio, and SNMP protocol. The hardware used was a basic computer, two USB cameras, and iSpyConnect software.  A UPS was also installed for the machine so that, in the event of power loss,  the…

SNORT Installation

Snort is an Intrusion Detection System that sits on a network and watches all the network traffic. It looks for any suspicious activity that may be the result of hacking, virus or malware activity, or any potentially dangerous code going across the network. Any activity is stored in a database that can be viewed on a…

Bacula Backup Project

Bacula Backup Project Bacula backup project is about backing up the servers in the University Department. The Bacula server is running on Debian a Linux distribution. Bacula is an open source program. Bacula allows the server to: manage backups recovery of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds verify computer data across…