Improve the information security pactice instruction with virtual machine techniques

The ongoing development of information security makes the traditional single-system experimental environment facing severe challenges. It is insufficient to meet the requirements of multi-machine or multi-system. And it is difficult to accomplish some kinds of experiments under a traditionally experimental desktop environment. Therefore, we try to utilize a new experimental mode, using Virtual Machine (VM) to improve Information Security Practice Instruction (ISPI). In this paper, we firstly analyze the limitations of ISPI under traditionally experimental environment. And the VM techniques like VMware are introduced. Then we propose a new instruction mode, Information Security Practice Instruction with Virtual Machine (ISPIVM). The corresponding steps, characteristics and merits are presented in detail. At last, two actual examples are provided to evaluate ISPIVM and the results show that our scheme is effective to improve ISPI.