A study on attacker agent in virtual machine-based network security learning system

Education of network security has attracted a lot of attentions due to increasing unauthorized access, lack of engineers who have network security skills, and so on. Although practice using actual computer networks is highly important for network security education, it requires costs to prepare a computer network for practice. We have proposed a network security learning system by constructing a virtual network on one PC so that low-cost, easy and safe practice can be accomplished. In this paper, we introduce an attacker agent that automatically attacks servers in a fixed pattern for supporting practical learning of defense techniques safely on a virtual network.