The University of Idaho RADICL
RADICL stands for Reconfigurable Attack Defend Instructional Computing Laboratory
Overview
The principle motivation behind a computer network attack-defend facility is the need to provide hands-on computer and network security experience to undergraduate and graduate students studying various aspects of Information Assurance (IA) and computer security. It is clear from the near-exponential increase in cyber intrusions and attacks documented by CERT over the last 10 years, that bookwork and classroom exercises are not sufficient to prepare IA professionals to adequately defend our computer networks. By experiencing actual attacks, and implementing actual defenses, IA students will gain the knowledge and insights that will enable them to design and implement more secure and survivable systems.
RADICL fulfills three requirements for a state of the art attack-defend lab: network isolation, rapid reconfiguration, and good usability. Many uses have been envisioned for RADICL, some of the experiments that could be run in RADICL are:
- Applications of firewalls, proxy servers, perimeter defenses, and bastion hosts
- DOS and DDOS detection, resistance, and recovery
- Exercises in system log file analysis
- Exercises in vulnerability assessment and mitigation
- Intrusion resistance, detection, and recovery
- Man-in-the-middle attacks and defenses
- Network cut-point and fail-over strategies
- Password cracking detection and defense
- URL and MAC address spoofs and filters
- Virus/worm propagation and detection
- Software engineering "best practices"
- Secure application deployment