Cyber Defense Lectures

These lectures were recorded at Iowa State University by graduate students in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Please download the videos and the handouts for each lecture. These are the same videos and handouts that are on the DVDs shipped to your schools.

These are the same materials that are on the DVD that was mailed to your school. The video has been converted to an avi file and the handout is a pdf file.

While you can run the videos and view the pdf files in your browser, it would be more beneficial to you to right click the link and download them to your hard drive.

Lecture 1 - Install FreeBSD
Lesson 1 Video - right click and save
Handout - right click and save

Below are links to download the ISO images for some of the open source software we sent to you for this sesson. If you download them, you need to be able to burn them to a cd or dvd before trying to install them to a machine. Some basic instructions about burning ISOs with freeware can be found here.

FreeBSD 7.0
Ubuntu Desktop & Server 9.04
Fedora Core 11

Lecture 2 - Basic Unix Commands
Lesson 2 Video
Handout

Lecture 3 - Basic Network Concepts
Lesson 3 Video
Handout
Homework
Homework Key

Lecture 4 - Ports and Protocols
Lesson 4 Video
PowerPoint
Handout

Link to software discussed in lecture
Wireshark
Ethereal

Lecture 5 - Sendmail and DNS
Lesson 5 Video
PowerPoint
Handout

Link to software discussed in lecture
pfSense

Lecture 6 - POP/IMAP/Apache/PHP
Lesson 6 Video
Handout

Lecture 7 - Remote Programming Environment
Lesson 7 Video
Handout

Lecture 8 - Securing Machines
Lesson 8 Video
Handout

Lecture 9 - Windows XP Security
Lesson 9 Video
Handout