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In this paper, a portable virtual laboratory was created with virtual machine software, VMware, for experimenting information security hands-on exercises. The laboratory would be easily applied to a traditional computer classroom with inexpensive/free virtual machine software. Information security students can do hands-on exercises with the portable virtual laboratory anywhere by hosting all image files of the laboratory on a portable USB disk. An information security curriculum was redesigned with the portable virtual laboratory. Examples of hands-on exercises, inner- and inter-team projects, were presented.
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Chen, FG., Chen, RM., Chen, J.S. (2011). A Portable Virtual Laboratory for Information Security Courses. In: Lin, S., Huang, X. (eds) Advances in Computer Science, Environment, Ecoinformatics, and Education. CSEE 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 218. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23357-9_44
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