Design and Implementation of e-Laboratory for Information Security Training

Information and network security have received a great attention in the past two decades and this attention will increase as the world moving dramatically towards making governmental and organizational systems computerized. Several events and scandals occurred that show that there are security breaches in most the powerful information security systems. These have enforced governments and organization to grant researches on information security and also educate their people in such aspects. Thus the research paper will investigate the ways to educate any organization members with the concepts of information and network security and taking the advantages of elearning to make such training efficient and easy to use. This step can be considered as a major step in any strategic planning for any organization to face the increasing threat in the millennium world. The research paper attempts to develop an E-Laboratory that will achieve the above goals via the training their users with the security concepts to be able to protect their information and networks. The paper presents the design and implementation of the e-laboratory that covers most of the important aspects of information and network security. The e-lab can also be used to detect the security breaches of the system and even the development of information and network security in future. Several well known techniques for well known producers and developer for defending the information and networks have been included in the e-lab with a simple and clear user friendly interface. These techniques can be freeware, shared or even purchased software available to protect the organization information and networks. The e-lab also provide documentation necessary to understand any security troubleshoot.