Re: Pen testing for educational purposes

["Micheal Cottingham" <techie.micheal () gmail com>]

You might want to see if you can either get involved (you didn't say
where you were) or get information from the National CCDC:
http://www.nationalccdc.org/ They have competitions very similar to
what you are describing for college/university students.

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:48 AM,  <dimkovtrajce () yahoo com> wrote:
> Hi, in my university we try to set an exercise for first year master students in computer security in which they need 
> to compromise a system using social engineering and technological skills.
>
> we are looking at a multistep scenario, in which they need to gain physical possession of the device(for ex. laptop 
> or pda) and extract encrypted data from it. They will get points at each checkpoint.
>
> The students come from 3 host universities where they get their other classes, so my guess is that we will need to 
> set 3 samples of the same exercise, or make the exercise somehow distributed.
>
> Since you have much more hands on experience, can you give us any tips or ideas for setting the exercise, so the 
> students get interested in taking more security courses?
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Dimkov Trajce