Enhance Student Learning Experience in Cybersecurity Education by Designing Hands-on Labs on Stepping-stone Intrusion Detection

Abstract

Stepping-stone intrusion has been widely used by professional hackers to launch their attacks. Unfortunately, this important and typical offensive skill has not been taught in most colleges and universities. In this paper, after surveying the most popular detection techniques in stepping-stone intrusion, we develop 10 hands-on labs to enhance studentlearning experience in cybersecurity education. The goal is not only to teach students offensive skills and the techniques to detect and prevent stepping-stone intrusion, but also to train them to be successfully adaptive to the fast-changing dynamic cybersecurity world.