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）以及相关的教育和评估材料，旨在广泛传播，用于高中和大学信息保障、网络安全和数字取证课程的教学。该项目包括使用免费/低成本的虚拟化软件以标准方式打包以供公开发布的OCCP设计活动；为网络防御课程、渗透测试课程和安全编程课程创建OCCP实例；为这些课程中的OCCP实例创建补充教材；评估在这些课程中使用OCCP的成效；举办讲习班和创建门户网站，以便广泛传播教育材料，并让社区对OCCP作出贡献。该项目的结果代表了一个受控的教学和评估环境，学生可以在精心编排的教学合理的现实场景中应用信息保障，网络安全和数字取证概念。OCCP易于安装且价格低廉，因此提供了一个起点，教师可以部署以节省大量工作，并且仍然可以根据他们的特定需求进行定制。此外，它还提供了一个具有软件体系结构和“封装”的框架，该框架旨在共享、修改、扩展和重用，以促进使用、支持和扩展OCCP的开放源代码社区的开发。

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.