The Construction and Testing of a Virtual Infrastructure for the purpose of a Network and Security Tutorial

This report presents a research on the best practices for delivering Network Security Tutorials and elaborates a set of tutorials that form part of the University of Derby Network and Security Programme. The First part of this research aims to understand why specific techniques and technologies have been chosen and how they will help in engaging students and maximising learning intake within a tutorial environment. Secondly, a virtual network has been designed and different tutorials have been implemented and documented.Performing the tutorial will provide an environment for Network and Security students to engage real life scenarios and encourage them to test different attacks and security implementations. Finally, the environment is designed and well documented so that further services can be added and the network topology can be adapted as and when needed.