[PEN-TEST] Educational laboratory setup

[Markus Peuhkuri <puhuri () TCT HUT FI>]

We have a new course for next term about communication security issues
(undergraduate M.Sc.).  One part of the course is to do some
laboratory work on both attacking and protecting the network and
information stored there.

As there is not very much time allocated for these tasks, it should be
well prepared to be meaningful.

We are planning to have attacking hosts outside, a firewall, NIDS, a
router network and end system hosts with possible back doors and
trojans.  It is also possible that some groups have possibility to put
a sniffer on network.  There is also varying amount of information
available about what is happening and what is in network.

I'll like to know about similar courses, if you have any experiences
or insight.

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