The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework that allows for the development of a virtual lab that incorporates emerging technologies such as the Industrial Internet of Things and embedded systems while incorporating open source components. The global shortage of talent is a significant concern as organizations continue to embrace and roll out new technologies such as 5G, and Artificial Intelligence. Several countries such as those in developing countries face issues regarding technology use in the classroom. Thus, to provide a learning environment where cybersecurity and information systems concepts can be taught in an exploratory environment.

1. Framework for the Development of Virtual Labs
for Industrial Internet of Things and
Hyperconnected Systems
Maurice Dawson a*, Francisco Garcia Martinez a, Pedro
Taveras b
a Illinois Institute of Technology, 10 West 35th Street, Chicago IL, 60616, USA
b Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra, Abraham Lincoln esq. Simón Bolivar,
Santo Domingo, 10108, Dominican Republic

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8. Middle East Corporate
Attacks
1. Recently Saipem reported massive attacks
on their servers with the majority of the
attacks occurring in Saudi Arabia and the
Middle East (Albanese and Lepido, 2018).
This attack has brought up questions if it was
economic espionage or state-sponsored
information gathering as seen during
(Albanese and Lepido, 2018).
2. Approximately 94% of the companies in
the Middle East and Africa stated that
they had been a victim of a cyber attack in
the past year (Cisco, 2018). This is
frightening as this number shows that there
that it is no longer a risk of having a cyber
attack as this is an event that will occur.
Therefore, organizations in this region have
to adequately be prepared to encounter
attacks and recover depending upon the type
of attack.

9. Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework that allows for the
development of a virtual lab that incorporates emerging technologies such as
the Industrial Internet of Things and embedded systems while incorporating
open source components. The global shortage of talent is a significant concern
as organizations continue to embrace and roll out new technologies such as 5G,
and Artificial Intelligence. Several countries such as those in developing countries
face issues regarding technology use in the classroom. Thus, to provide a
learning environment where cybersecurity and information systems concepts
can be taught in an exploratory environment.

10. RADISH
1. Remotely-Accessible Dynamic Infrastructure for Students
to Hack (RADISH) allows Illinois Institute of Technology
(IIT) School of Applied Technology (SAT) class
members to have full, unrestricted access to ForSec Lab
resources from any location and from nearly any
Internet-connected device. RADISH enables 24/7
access so students may work on their projects
continuously with no logistic concern.
2. RADISH was developed in 2010 as a replacement for
portable hard disk drives (HDDs) that were prepared
with several pre-configured virtual machines (VMs)
and distributed to students to complete in-class
laboratories and home exercises. By attaching these
HDDs to computers, students were able to determine
information based on the structure of the HDDs. The
physical existence aspect of the class was completely
eliminated by this new system. Classes became 100%
virtualized, and all the physical machines had their
virtual correspondent with remote access. The
system was originally designed to be an addition to the
class’s computer infrastructure; however, over the years,
RADISH has become the Cyber Forensics and Security
Laboratory’s main system, and the class laboratory acts
as an addition to RADISH.

11. Mission Framework
1. This framework ties in three themes.
1. The first of these themes is education as it
deals with establishing cybersecurity education
programs.
2. The next theme is the role of policy in
cybersecurity.
3. And the final theme covers the role of
echnology in cybersecurity. The Mission
Framework is shown in Fig. 1, which was used
to develop the learning environment.
2. Each policy required a different implementation
of a particular technology. Using this process
allows for educational components that can be
designed that reflect current policies.
3. Thus when an instructor needs to customize the
virtual lab to represent a specific country, then
they can use this framework as a guide to
ensure all components are considered to deploy
a virtual lab.

12. SAT - Cybersecurity Lab
The system diagram of the School of
Applied Technology Cybersecurity Lab
(SAT-CL) is shown in Figure 2.
Students can access the virtual lab
from several computing devices using a
remote desktop client. Once students
have been authenticated, they are
provided a Kali Linux Virtual Machine
(VM) from where they can gain access
to many systems beyond a
router/Domain Name System (DNS)
server. The system is scalable, in
which it allows for additional
components such as servers or images
of IoT devices to be added or removed.

13. Oracle Virtual Box
In Fig. 3, the current implementation is
shown that runs on any desktop or
laptop. The issue with this former
implementation is that it depends solely
on the end user’s computing
environment, such as the Central
Processing Unit (CPU), memory, and
hard disk space. However, the
applications such as the Kali VM and
vulnerable web server in Fig. 3 are all
found in Fig. 2, which is an expansion
of the virtual environment with an ability
to manage the complexity of the
network. This provides flexibility in what
concepts can be taught according to
specific laws and guidelines for a
particular mission.

16. Issues and Future Directions
There are indeed projects that have saved money
by adopting desktop virtualization, and most do
not see any ROI for at least a few years. To justify
the use of this type of technology for the proposed
objectives, the cost should not be a central
argument. This is because initially, licensing
costs and initial infrastructure far exceed the
initial benefits. VDI based projects generally
require investment in thin clients, and
improvements to storage and network
infrastructure, which can make it an expensive
project in the front end. To simulate basic
operations such as the use of office automation
applications, 200 kilobits of network bandwidth is
probably sufficient.

17. Conclusion
There are a few challenges in this implementation,
such as finding a fully open source virtual desktop
infrastructure. Other challenges are the Graphical
User Interface (GUI) remote desktop client. Further
issues are on hosting mobile device images and
ensuring the ability to have them operate as if hosted
on their native platform. The goal is to have a fully an
open source environment so that developing countries
are not burdened with the associated cost of software
licenses.

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