The Open Cyber Challenge Platform For Teaching Information Assurance, Cyber Security, and Forensics

该项目创建了一个开源网络挑战软件平台(OCCP)以及随附的教育和评估材料，旨在广泛传播，用于教授高中和大学的信息保障、网络安全和数字取证课程。该项目包括使用免费/低成本的虚拟化软件设计OCCP以公开发布的标准方式；为网络防御课程、渗透测试课程和安全编程课程创建OCCP的实例；创建用于这些课程中的OCCP实例的补充教育材料；评估在这些课程中使用OCCP的有效性；举办研讨会并创建用于广泛传播教育材料和社区对OCCP的社区贡献的网络门户。该项目的结果代表了一个受控的教学和评估环境，在该环境中，学生在精心编排的教学现实场景中应用信息保证、网络安全和数字取证概念。OCCP安装简单且成本低廉，因此提供了一个起点，教师可以部署以节省大量工作，但仍可根据其特定需求进行量身定制。此外，它提供了一个具有软件体系结构和“打包”的框架，旨在共享、修改、扩展和重用，以促进使用、支持和扩展OCCP的开放源码社区的开发。

This project creates an open-source cyber challenge software platform (OCCP) and accompanying educational and assessment materials that are designed to be widely disseminated for teaching high school and college information assurance, cyber security, and digital forensics courses. The project consists of activities to design the OCCP using free/low cost virtualization software packaged in a standard way for public release; to create instances of the OCCP for network defense courses, penetration testing courses, and secure programming courses; to create supplemental educational materials for use with the OCCP instances in these courses; to assess the effectiveness of the use of OCCP in these courses; and to hold workshops and create a web portal for wide dissemination of educational materials, and for community contributions to the OCCP.The result of this project represents a controlled teaching and assessment environment where students apply information assurance, cyber security, and digital forensics concepts in orchestrated pedagogically-sound realistic scenarios. The OCCP is easy and inexpensive to install and as such provides a starting point that instructors can deploy to save substantial effort, and yet still tailor to their specific needs. Furthermore, it provides a framework with a software architecture and "packaging" that is meant to be shared, modified, extended, and re-used to facilitate the development of an open source community that uses, supports, and extends the OCCP.