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Before I became the TA for the Intro to Cybersecurity Course at Utah State, I helped out in the class as much as I could. Towards the end of the semester, the class was doing a Red vs Blue team tabletop simulation. It was pretty fun, and I found it to be a great learning tool for the students. However, it was done on pen and paper, and I thought it would be cool to automate it.
Check out the current progress on my GitHub
End-Goal Requirements
- Students able to connect to their game machine through their browser
- Teams of 7v7, each player with different roles and tools
- Enterprise environment, equipped with databases, login pages, DMZ, logging, and more
- Point system for files obtained / defended at the end of the time limit
- Can run on a small raspberry pi cluster
Settling on a Framework - Docker
I needed something reusable, easy to set up on any computer, and easy for the students to use. Eventually, I settled on using Docker. I’ve never used it before this project, but it’s a great opportunity for me to learn about it.
Student Connection - VNC
The first thing that I wanted to get working was a way for the students to connect to the browser. I remembered back to when I was using Proxmox, all of the VMs I would use VNC. Although there were alternatives such as ttyd or wetty, I opted for VNC because it would allow students to have access to GUI tools such as Wireshark and Ghidra if they wanted.
Networking - Traefik
As easy as it would be for me to just set up one docker compose and have a flat network, I want management for the admin and some routing to simulate a real network. Right now, Traefik looks like the tool for the job.