[Year 12 IT Apps] U4O2 Security Resources

[henma at gopc.net]

Some great stuff being discussed regarding security!

I watched the clip from CBC "Can you hack it?". The tools used are  
mostly opensource. I ran a demo using the Nessus scanner, nmap and  
dsniff for a network practical (on an isolated network of course!) for  
the VCE ITA unit on networks. I used a linux laptop as the students  
were pretty keen to "have a go" themselves, so I did my best just to  
show them the output and packet dumps, rather than the software  
packages themselves. Also, they would have to install linux to get the  
same the results! The same tools are available for Windows, but I  
didn't want to make it too easy for them!

So far no one has mentioned SANS. They have some great resources  
online for researching security. Their Reading Room can be quite  
depressing at times!

http://www.sans.org/reading_room/

I can recommend SANS as a "real world" site. When I had a real world  
job, we used their guides and resources for securing our networks.

Cheers

Henry Johnson
Moodle Administrator
Yavneh College
http://moodle.yavneh.vic.edu.au

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