We are excited to offer our 5th Annual Texas Cyber Security Awareness Week (TexSAW) event. This year’s event will again target students who are interested in pursuing computer security. Students will be exposed to security concepts which will expand their knowledge of cyber security and broaden their career opportunities.

Students will have the opportunity to:

• Meet students interested in cyber security from other universities in Texas.
• Attend workshops on Friday, November 6th, to develop fundamental hands-on skills in the cyber security topics of web security, system hardening and penetration testing.
• Hear a guest presentation from a leading industry expert.
• Put newly-learned skills to use in a cyber security competition on Saturday, November 7th.

Student hardware/software requirements:

Full laptop with RAM: 4GB (8GB preferred) that can run virtual machines (VMWare Player, VirtualBox), Disk: 20GB available, Reasonably powerful x86 hardware. Any recent Intel or AMD processor should do, OS: any supported by the virtual machine monitor.  No chrome books. 

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/End-user_documentation

  Software requirements

**Server hardening session

Tools Needed: Two Ubuntu Virtual Machines

1. Install Virtual Box, https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

2. Install 2 Ubuntu Virtual Machines (Ubuntu 14.04) on the Virtual Box, http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04/

Downloading Virtual Box, Ubuntu, and Installing Ubuntu on Virtual Box

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkJmahizwO4