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Cybersecurity Virtual Lab
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Information Assurance Virtual Lab
Coursework – January 2022 to May 2022
- Deployed Proxmox KVM virtualization technologies to create virtual networks of 3 Ubuntu systems, to have a platform to simulate real cybersecurity situations to learn how to detect and defend against network intrusions
- Incorporated Snort to write 22+ rules to detect network scans and intrusions
- Wrote a Bash shell script to initiate 3 network scans and 4 attacks with Hping3 and Nmap
- Implemented iptables to protect OpenSSH, vsftpd, and Apache2 services without restricting intended access