This page contains educational modules for teaching cybersecurity with SPHERE research infrastructure. Most of the modules were developed thanks to the NSF funding (awards #0920719, #1319197 and #1723717) and others were contributed by teachers from all over the world. The modules were used by more than 200 classes, and have benefited more than 22,000 students since 2010.

If you are interested in contributing your hands-on exercises to this collection please email Jelena Mirkovic.

1. BGP: Prefix Hijacking
2. Binary Analysis: An Introduction to Dwarf
3. CCTF: Secure Server
4. CCTF: Secure and Resilient Server
5. Cryptography: Symmetric Encryption
6. DDoS: Hash Collisions
7. DDoS: Slowloris Attack
8. DDoS: TCP SYN flood
9. DNS: Man-in-the-middle Attacks
10. Exploits: Buffer Overflows
11. Exploits: Computer Forensics
12. Exploits: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
13. Exploits: Pathname Attacks
14. Exploits: SQL Injection
15. Intro: SPHERE
16. Intro: Unix/Linux
17. Networking: IPv6
18. Networking: Routing, Addressing, Port Forwarding
19. Passwords: Cracking
20. Prevention: OS Hardening
21. Prevention: POSIX Permissions
22. Prevention: Setting up IPSec
23. Prevention: Snort
24. Prevention: Stateful Firewalls
25. Worms: Modeling the Spread