Teaching Offensive Lab Skills

2022 ◽  
pp. 273-287
Author(s):  
Zouheir Trabelsi ◽  
Margaret McCoey ◽  
Yang Wang
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Student Behavior ◽  
Student Surveys ◽  
Ethical Practices ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Comprehensive Information ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Institutional Liability

This chapter identifies and discusses the learning outcomes to be achieved because of hands-on lab exercises using ethical hacking. It discusses the ethical implications associated with including such labs in the information security curriculum. The discussion is informed by analyses of log data on student malicious activities, and the results of student surveys. The examination of student behavior after acquiring hands-on offensive skills shows that there is potentially a high risk of using these skills in an inappropriate and illegal manner. While acknowledging the risk and the ethical problems associated with teaching ethical hacking, it strongly recommends that information security curricula should opt for a teaching approach that offers students both offensive hands-on lab exercises coupled with ethical practices related to the techniques. The authors propose steps to offer a comprehensive information security program while at the same time minimizing the risk of inappropriate student behavior and reducing institutional liability in that respect and increasing the ethical views and practices related to ethical hacking.

Teaching Offensive Lab Skills

2020 ◽  
pp. 138-152
Author(s):  
Zouheir Trabelsi ◽  
Margaret McCoey ◽  
Yang Wang
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Student Behavior ◽  
Student Surveys ◽  
Ethical Practices ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Comprehensive Information ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Institutional Liability

This chapter identifies and discusses the learning outcomes to be achieved because of hands-on lab exercises using ethical hacking. It discusses the ethical implications associated with including such labs in the information security curriculum. The discussion is informed by analyses of log data on student malicious activities, and the results of student surveys. The examination of student behavior after acquiring hands-on offensive skills shows that there is potentially a high risk of using these skills in an inappropriate and illegal manner. While acknowledging the risk and the ethical problems associated with teaching ethical hacking, it strongly recommends that information security curricula should opt for a teaching approach that offers students both offensive hands-on lab exercises coupled with ethical practices related to the techniques. The authors propose steps to offer a comprehensive information security program while at the same time minimizing the risk of inappropriate student behavior and reducing institutional liability in that respect and increasing the ethical views and practices related to ethical hacking.

Ethical Hacking in Information Security Curricula

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zouheir Trabelsi ◽  
Margaret McCoey
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Student Behavior ◽  
Student Survey ◽  
Defense Strategies ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Illegal Behavior ◽  
Lecture Material ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Institutional Liability

Teaching offensive security (ethical hacking) is becoming a necessary component of information security curricula with a goal of developing better security professionals. The offensive security components extend curricula beyond system defense strategies. This paper identifies and discusses the learning outcomes achieved as a result of hands-on lab exercises which focus on attacking systems. The paper includes the ethical implications associated with including such labs. The discussion is informed by analyses of log data on student malicious activities, and student survey results. The examination of student behavior after acquiring these skills demonstrates that there is potentially a high risk of inappropriate and illegal behavior associated with this type learning. While acknowledging these risks and problems, the paper recommends that curricula should opt for a teaching approach that offers students both offensive and defensive hands-on lab exercises in conjunction with lecture material. The authors propose steps to minimize the risk of inappropriate behavior and reduce institutional liability.

scholarly journals Ethical issues relating to qualitative research

2005 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Jelsma ◽  
S. Clow
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
Ethical Review ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Scientific Rigour ◽  
Hands On

Qualitative research or naturalistic research has moved from the sidelines into the mainstream of health research and an increasing number of qualitative research proposals are being presented for ethical review Qualitative research presents ethical problems that which are unique to the intensive hands-on paradigm which characterises naturalistic research. This paper briefly outlines the most common methodologies used in this research. The four ethical principles of benevolence, non-maleficence, autonomy and justice will be used as a framework to explore specific ethical issues related to this form of inquiry. The need for scientific rigour will also be explored as research that is scientifically unsound can never be ethical.

scholarly journals On the Necessity of Establishing a National Cybersecurity Testbed

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 428
Author(s):  
Sufyan T. Al-Janabi
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Ongoing Effort ◽  
Enabling Technologies ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Research Environments ◽  
Hands On Learning ◽  
Difficult Challenge

Information security now is considered to be cross-disciplinary and comprehensive field. It integrates the accumulation of knowledge in many disciplines like computer science, mathematics, communications, electronics, physics, etc. Thus, there has been an ongoing effort to improve the experiences in information security experimentation. Many international institutions are investigating enhanced approaches to provide hands-on learning and research environments. However, academic institutions are facing with the difficult challenge of providing lab infrastructuresthat meet the increasingly growing needs of cybersecurity training. In this paper, we report on the necessity and importance of building an effective national testbed for cybersecurity experimentation. We also present a general top-level architecture for this testbed emphasizing the most important enabling technologies.

scholarly journals The ethics of nobody I know: gender and the politics of description

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Laurie
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Feminist Philosophy ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
Ethical Practices ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Political Identification ◽  
Political Resources ◽  
Human Liberty ◽  
Social Encounters

Purpose – This paper aims to bring together feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and masculinity studies to consider the gendered formation of ethical practices, focusing on the construction of “male” and “female” identities in quotidian social encounters. While scholarship on masculinity has frequently focused on hegemonic modes of behaviour or normative gender relations, less attention has been paid to the “ethics of people I know” as informal political resources, ones that shapes not only conversations about how one should act (“people I know don’t do that”), but also about the diversity of situations that friends, acquaintances or strangers could plausibly have encountered (“that hasn’t happened to anyone I know”). Design/methodology/approach – The paper rethinks mundane social securities drawing on Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, and Sara Ahmed to consider anecdotal case studies around gender recognition and political practice, and in doing so also develops the notion of interpellation in relation to everyday ethical problems. Findings – The paper suggests that inquiry into diverse modes of quotidian complicities – or what de Beauvoir calls the “snares” of a deeply human liberty – can be useful for describing the mixtures of sympathy, empathy, and disavowal in the performance of pro-feminist and queer-friendly masculinities or masculinist identities. It also suggests that the adoption of an “anti-normative” politics is insufficient for negotiating the problems of description and recognition involved in the articulation of gendered social experiences. Originality/value – This paper approaches questions around political identification commonly considered in queer theory from the viewpoint of descriptive practices themselves, and thus reorients problems of recognition and interpellation towards the expression of ethical statements, rather than focusing solely on the objects of such statements.

Ethics and Discovering New Meanings With Metaphors

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-206
Author(s):  
Constance L. Milton
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Hands On ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Human Understanding

Metaphors are widely understood concepts or structures of human understanding undergirded with transformational creativity. The usages of metaphors are ubiquitous; they are used to convey unique meaning messages in healthcare disciplines. This article begins an ethical straight-thinking discussion of the defining aspects of metaphors and their usage in the discipline of nursing. The humanbecoming paradigm is used to discover new meanings of the metaphor hands-on and its ethical implications for understanding in the discipline of nursing.

scholarly journals Nanomedicine: Techniques, Potentials, and Ethical Implications

2006 ◽  
Vol 2006 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mette Ebbesen ◽  
Thomas G. Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Targeted Drug Delivery ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Embryonic Stem ◽  
Biological Properties ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Physical Chemical ◽  
Cell Versus

Nanotechnology is concerned with materials and systems whose structures and components exhibit novel physical, chemical, and biological properties due to their nanoscale size. This paper focuses on what is known as nanomedicine, referring to the application of nanotechnology to medicine. We consider the use and potentials of emerging nanoscience techniques in medicine such as nanosurgery, tissue engineering, and targeted drug delivery, and we discuss the ethical questions that these techniques raise. The ethical considerations involved in nanomedicine are related to risk assessment in general, somatic-cell versus germline-cell therapy, the enhancement of human capabilities, research into human embryonic stem cells and the toxicity, uncontrolled function and self-assembly of nanoparticles. The ethical considerations associated with the application of nanotechnology to medicine have not been greatly discussed. This paper aims to balance clear ethical discussion and sound science and so provide nanotechnologists and biotechnologists with tools to assess ethical problems in nanomedicine.

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