{"id":61,"date":"2013-08-07T17:35:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T17:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/edurange\/?page_id=61"},"modified":"2013-08-07T17:35:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T17:35:50","slug":"hackathon-i-michaels-comments","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/edurange\/hackathon-i-michaels-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackathon I: Michael’s comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

The highlights of this first EDURange hackathon from Michael Locasto were:<\/p>\n

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  1. Students paired with faculty on two-person teams to play\u00a0 our recon game.\u00a0 This scenario is inspired by a couple of PacketWars scenarios, and even though it is a very simple scenario, it was fun for faculty to play side-by-side with students and help walk them through some of the possible approaches to this task. This scenario has also served as our “proof-of-concept” to help drive the design and construction of the actual framework and technology behind the larger EDURange<\/li>\n
  2. We created an event recognition language in our scenario description format that helps specify both learning goals as well as providing a hook for scoring and assessment<\/li>\n
  3. We all worked together, brainstorming a few new scenarios and whiteboarding out the elements of the scenario or exercise to a level of detail where we felt we had something quite new and exciting<\/li>\n
  4. The students suggested the need for a couple of canned “howto” video introductions to some scenarios so that students without much of a background in systems or networks can find a toehold to begin the first reconnaissance exercise.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    The coolest, most radical, and enticing idea to come out of this weekend, however, was from some casual talk and brainstorming about how to get “live” and good quality cover traffic for one of our scenarios.\u00a0 Cover traffic<\/em> is realistic background traffic and events that can potentially obscure the data that the player is looking for. A radical suggestion here was to simply eschew isolation and run every EDURange scenario concurrently in the same address space (i.e., network) and host machines. \u00a0I think the interaction of scenarios would be fascinating to study, along with the social aspects of different players from different teams and scenarios communicating, bartering, and cooperating.<\/div>\n
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    The lesson here is that “isolation is a barrier to learning.” Most times, we construct security exercises to be clean-slate and isolated — we do this to control complexity and as a “service” to both the student and the instructor so they won’t get distracted. But our insight here is that perhaps getting distracted is a good thing, especially since we want to give people the time and space to explore and poke around.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The highlights of this first EDURange hackathon from Michael Locasto were: Students paired with faculty on two-person teams to play\u00a0 our recon game.\u00a0 This scenario is inspired by a couple of PacketWars scenarios, and even though it is a very simple scenario, it was fun for faculty to play side-by-side with students and help walk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2777,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/edurange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/edurange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/edurange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/edurange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/edurange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/edurange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/edurange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}