Cybersecurity lab at LiUPhotographer: Magnus Johansson
The cybersecurity lab at LiU offers facilities that are tailored for teaching cybersecurity in undergraduate and professional training programs.
Government agencies, organisations, companies, and individuals are all potential targets for cyberattacks. The digitisation of services and products, along with the increasing amount of cybercrime, places greater demands on protecting systems from being hacked. If you rely on computers, cloud services, and networks in your work, you should have a basic understanding of cybersecurity, which means knowing how to protect information and systems from malicious attacks. What are the threats? How do you assess different threats? How do you avoid unnecessary risks? These are some typical questions addressed in training programs in the field.
As a research field, cybersecurity is multifaceted and constantly evolving. LiU has several prominent research groups in the area that can support you and your organisation in efforts to strengthen a cybersecurity culture.
About the lab
The cybersecurity lab is an environment where students and security experts can test and develop techniques for protection against cyber threats. The environment enables exercises that train both defensive and offensive security. In defensive security training, one practices defending systems. Various types of security incidents are simulated and managed, helping to prepare for real attacks. In offensive security training, systems are attacked, thereby learning how to build systems that can better withstand attacks.
Physical and virtual lab environment
More about the lab
The lab offers both a physical environment with two large computer rooms and an intermediate control room, as well as a connection to a protected server environment with a number of specially equipped servers for simulating IT environments through virtualised machines and networks. These servers have their own separate network, which enables the training of defensive and offensive security under controlled conditions without risking, for example, the spread of malware to surrounding systems.
The system is flexible and can be adapted to different courses and training needs, allowing us to create scenarios based on the specific conditions of various organisations. In addition to cybersecurity training, the lab environment can be used for other educational purposes, such as team competitions in programming.
It accommodates 48 people.
Cybersecurity lab at LiUPhotographer: Magnus Johansson
Cybersecurity lab at LiUPhotographer: Magnus Johansson
Cybersecurity lab at LiUPhotographer: Magnus Johansson
Cybersecurity lab at LiUPhotographer: Magnus Johansson
Cybersecurity lab at LiUPhotographer: Magnus Johansson
Research in cybersecurity at Linköping University is both theoretically and practically oriented and contributes to improving the security and resilience of critical services, ranging from the supply of water, electricity, heating, or internet, systems in vehicles and other cyber-physical systems, to software and web-based services.
Examples of research topics are network and web security, threat analysis and risk assessment, analysis of human behaviour, formal security analysis, privacy, forensics, adverse event detection, and quantum cryptography.
