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Tele-Lab - virtual IT Security Lab

Recently, Awareness Creation in terms of IT security has become a big thing – not only for enterprises. Campaigns for students try to highlight the importance of IT security even in the user’s early years. Common practices in security education – as seen in computer science courses at universities – mainly consist of literature and lecturing. In the best case, the teaching facility offers practical courses in a dedicated isolated computer lab. Additionally, there are some more or less interactive e-learning applications around. Most existing offers can do nothing more than impart theoretical knowledge or basic information. They all lack of possibilities to provide practical experience with security software or even hacker tools in a realistic environment. The only exceptions are the expensive and hard-to-maintain dedicated computer security labs. Those can only be provided by very few organizations. Tele-Lab IT-Security idea is to offer hands-on experience exercises in IT-security without the need of additional hardware or maintenance expenses. The existing implementation of Tele-Lab even provides access to the learning environment over the Internet – and thus can be used anytime and anywhere. The main aims are to transfer and adapt IT security Virtual Laboratory for training: The Tele-Lab project provides a novel e-learning system for practical security training in the WWW and inherits all positive characteristics from offline security labs. The Tele-Lab server basically consists of a web-based tutoring system and a training environment built of virtual machines. It could be used by students in university and students with disabilities. The consortium of this project - two universities with IT security programs for students and two IT companies (one-professional IT creator of e-learning systems, other is IT WWW security company). This consortium is high level of IT-security (theoretical and practical knowledge, science and private sectors), also key stuff of this consortium is expert of project management, studies, IT-security, e-learning and virtual systems. Together they form a strong group of the project. The intangible outcomes are communication between countries in IT security level, changing their information about virtual machines, IT security systems in their countries, changing with experience between universities and IT companies, creating systems together. The tangible outcomes are different in each countries, but general outcome is that will be created (transfer) a virtual IT security laboratory, in the presence of high level partners and the use of each partner's strength in the field will be the benefits gained at the party to which the transfer, but each partner will benefit from specific activities. The impact - new generation e-learning to use in the education sector. Due to the close cooperation between public educational institutions and companies, this successful system is considered to be worldwide one of the most exemplary.
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