Design and Implementation of a Multi-Use Attack-Defend Computer Security Lab

This paper describes the rationale, design and implementation of a Reconfigurable Attack-Defend Instructional Computing Laboratory (RADICL). Topics covered include the ethical and pedagogical considerations for creating and using a lab that instructs and develops not only student’s abilities to secure a system, but also their ability to attack a system. An in-depth description of the design and implementation and future work of the lab is also included.