Integrate Hacking Technique into Information Assurance Education

It has become a trend that more and more institutions offer offensive techniques in information assurance education. In this paper, up the discussion of network mapping and vulnerability scanning, gaining access to a target via vulnerability exploitation, and maintaining an access to a victim host through HackerDefender rootkit techniques, we propose integrating the hacking techniques into information security education. Five hands-on lab exercises are proposed and the platform iVLab to conduct the labs are also presented.