SEED:

Developing Instructional Laboratories for Computer SEcurity EDucation

Principal Investigator

Co-PIs

  • Dr. Tom Daniels
  • Dr. Noreen Gaubatz
  • Dr. Peng Ning
  • Dr. Gene Spafford

Current Students

  • Bandan Das
  • Sudheer Bysani
  • Karthick Jayaraman
  • Zutao Zhu

Graduated Students & Employments

  • Sridhar Iyer (Mailshell)
  • Ronghua Wang (Microsoft)
  • Mingdong Shang (Microsoft)
  • Divyakaran Sachar
  • Nishant Doshi (Symantec)
  • Swapnil Bhalode (Symantec)
  • Sankara Narayanan (Cisco)
  • Sunil Vajir


Lab Environment

The SEED lab environment includes VMware, Minix, and Linux. This environment is used for all the projects in this course, and getting familiar with them is critical.
  • Install VMware workstation. You can get a serial number from the TA. This serial number is provided by VMware via its academic program. You can install the software on your personal computers (Windows or Linux only), but you need to comply with the license agreement described in http://www.vmware.com/academic.
  • Install Linux Fedora (any recent version) as a guest operating system on VMware virtual machine. You can download this OS from the Internet.
  • Install Minix 3 as a guest operating system on VMware virtual machine. You can go through the installation of Minix 3, or directly use a pre-built minix3 virtual machine. You can get both from the minix3 web site.
  • (Only for CIS/CSE 758: Internet Security)
    Install the netwox tools. Here are the manuals of netwox, netwib, and netwag.

Installation Documents

The following documents are for older version of VMware (4.5); there might be differences in version VMware 5.5.

Reference Links