Cybersecurity and P4-DPDK Workshop

Overview

This workshop will cover two main topics: 1) “Cybersecurity Tools and Applications,” and 2) “Introduction to P4-DPDK.”

The “Cybersecurity Tools and Applications” library covers the main concepts needed by learners who may want to be introduced to cybersecurity and/or want to obtain the Security+ certificate. Topics are reinforced with virtual labs that can be deployed in a NETLAB+ system. Examples of labs include Remote Access Trojan (RAT) using Reverse TCP Meterpreter, Social Engineering Attacks, Credentials Harvesting and Remote Access through Phishing Emails, SQL Injection Attack on a Web Application, Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Attack on a Web Application, Asymmetric Encryption (RSA, Digital Signatures, Diffie-Hellman), Configuring a Stateful Packet Filter using iptables, Intrusion Detection and Prevention using Suricata, and more.
The P4-DPDK library covers the fundamentals of P4, including P4 building blocks, parser implementation, and match-action tables. It will then progress to application such as mitigating denial of service attacks at 100Gbps traffic rates

Audience

The target audience for this tutorial includes Information Technology (IT) professionals and practitioners, network and security students, researchers, and application developers. The tutorial can also be useful for instructors interested in teaching cybersecurity and P4-DPDK in the classrooms.