Workshop on Teaching Information Assurance
through Case
Studies and Hands-on Experiences
Purpose
This workshop is intended to promote cryptography in education, to enhance student learning experience, and to foster collaboration among faculty in Information Assurance (IA) field. Application and registration is free. The application deadline is January 7th, 2013. Please click here to start your application.
For full details, please see the workshop flyer.
How To Apply:
Please submit/email the following part as part of the workshop application:
- One-page statement including your interests in teaching Information Assurance, education background, research interests, courses taught, courses to be taught in Spring 2013 and Fall 2014, and how they intend to incorporate workshop training results to their curriculum.
- Support letter from department chairs or heads indicating institutional commitment to support the incorporation of the workshop materials to their curriculum.
- Commitment to identify one or two courses to collect control data and report follow-up evaluation when they adopt our materials in their instruction.
- Commitment to participate in discussion and contribute to improve our workshotps and the development of IA hands-on labs and case studies.
Deadline of Application
Please submit your application by January 7 (Friday), 2013.
Time:
May 20-24, 2013. Workshop participants are expected to arriave on May 19th, 2013, Workshot starts at 8:00am on May 20, and ends at 4:00pm, May 24.
Location:
North Carolina Agriculture and Technology State University, Greensboro, NC.
Desktop computers are available for computer labs. You are required to bring a laptop or a USB based storage
device with at least 25 GB with NTFS format for workshop materials. Wireless connection will be available.
How To Get Here:
Airport of Greensboro, NC is Piedmont Triad International Airport (GSO)
The address of North Carolina Agriculture and Technology State University is 1601 East
Market Street, Greensboro, NC 27411.
Costs:
Appplicants will be awarded $2,000 to cover travel and lodging cost.
Workshop topics:
- Cryptography: hands on labs on modes of symmetric encryption and its implication, RSA attacks, hash function properties, key management.
- Network Security: an animated learning tool for Kerberos authentication architecture, an animated simulation for packet sniffer, a visualization tool for wireles attacks, interactive SYN Flood simulator, firewall simulation game, stack overflow visualization.
- Web Security: hands on labs on web application vulnerability assessment, secure programming, static analysis.
- Access Control: hands-on labs and case tudies on dictionary access control, role-based access control, mandatory access control, and database security.
- Security Management: case studies on risk management, security policy, incidence response planning, disaster recovery planning, physical security.
This workshop provides an excellent opportunity to develop instructional excellence and to network with peers. Expected outcome of the workshop is to provide concrete case studies, and hands-on lab material, test questions, and evaluation rubrics that can be applied in teaching information assurance in computing related courses. The workshop will also focus on developing effective evaluation instruments that can lead to peer-reviewed publications in CS education conferences/journals.
Agenda
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Monday |
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8:00am |
Shuttle pick up at Hotel |
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8:30am - 8:45am |
Welcome |
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8:45am - 10:00am |
Workshop Participant Introduction |
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10:00am - 10:15am |
Coffee Break |
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10:15am - 12:30pm |
Firewall simulation games (Williams) |
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12:30pm – 1:30pm |
Lunch |
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1:30pm - 2:45pm |
Cryptography (Yang) |
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2:45pm - 3:15pm |
Coffee Break |
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3:15pm - 5:00pm |
Cryptography Hands-on and Case Studies (Yang) |
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5:00pm – 6:30pm |
Reception |
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6:30pm |
Shuttle back to hotel |
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Tuesday |
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8:00am |
Shuttle pick up at Hotel |
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8:30am - 10:00am |
Guided web hacking: Security First Online Banking (Chu) |
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10:00am - 10:15am |
Coffee Break |
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10:15am - 12:30am |
Secure web development with TuneStore (Chu) |
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12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch |
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1:30pm - 2:45pm |
Secure web development with Goldrush (Chu) |
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2:45pm - 3:15pm |
Coffee Break |
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3:15pm - 5:00pm |
Secure web development with Goldrush (Chu) (ctd.) |
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5:00pm - 6:30pm |
Dinner |
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6:30pm |
Shuttle back to hotel |
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Wednesday |
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8:00am |
Shuttle pick up at Hotel |
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8:30am - 9:00am |
Security Management Case Studies (Yuan) |
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9:00am – 10:00am |
Security Visualization Tools (Yuan) |
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10:00am - 10:15am |
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10:15am - 12:30am |
Wireless Security Labs (Yuan) |
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12:30am - 1:30pm |
Lunch |
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1:30pm - 2:45pm |
Secure Coding (Williams) |
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2:45pm- 3:00pm |
Coffee Break |
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3:00pm- 5:00pm |
ISEE |
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5:00pm - 6:30pm |
Dinner |
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6:30pm |
Shuttle back to hotel |
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Thursday |
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8:00am |
Shuttle pick up at Hotel |
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8:30am - 10:00am |
SWEET |
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10:00am - 10:15am |
Coffee Break |
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10:15am - 12:30am |
Security Ethics and Discussion (Winters) |
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12:30am - 1:30pm |
Lunch |
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1:30pm - 2:45pm |
Buffer overflow Labs (Williams) |
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2:45pm - 5:00pm |
Field Trip to RF Micro Devices (RFMD) |
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5:00pm - 6:30pm |
Dinner |
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6:30pm |
Shuttle back to hotel |
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Friday |
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8:00am |
Shuttle pick up at Hotel |
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8:30am - 10:00am |
Metasploit (Tanko) |
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10:00am - 10:15am |
Coffee Break |
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10:15am - 11:45am |
Metasploit continued (Tanko) |
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11:45am - 12:45pm |
Focus group study |
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12:45pm - 1:45pm |
Lunch |
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1:45pm - 2:45pm |
Focus group study |
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2:45pm - 4:00pm |
Bird of Feather |
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