Innovative Teaching and Learning Experiences in Network Attacks and Defense

Network attacks and defense, as a core lesson in the field of the information security, introduce a kind of educational method called situational teaching which separate attacking roles as well as defending ones apart dividing this course into 12 subjects: scanning, network sniffing, password cracker, spoofing attacks, DOS (Denial of Services), buffer overflows, Web attacks, SQL (Structured Query Language) injection, Trojan-horse, computer virus, mobile phone virus, firewall as well as intrusion detection, each group containing 6 students have one task, half of whom belong to the attacking fields while the remaining should work on the opposite side. We sincerely hope that through this practice students´ comprehensive capability including practical ability, self-learning ability and how to solve, analyze one problem as well as to get along with others can be improved to some extent.