In an effort to stimulate technical discussion, I'd like to propose a "community project":
What I had in mind is to build a "put yourself in context" scenario/exercise in which everyone can contribute his ideas and discuss possibilities with each other. I was thinking something like how would you build a network (infrastructure) from scratch while on a limited budget and having to fullfil certain requirements: It must serv X number of users, in Y groups, have internet access, host it's own web (and ftp?) servers with W number of hits/day, must be secure (to possible extenet of course, but describe why you feel this is secure enough and/or an acceptable risk), describe what types of system you would use (OS... why?), the network topology, ACLs, policies, network surveillance/and monitoring systems (software, hardware), remote access possibilities, network map etc.

Of course a more detailed profile of the purpose of the network would be needed but you get the idea...

I think it would be a good oportunity for experienced members to share there knowledge and greate learning opportunity for others to learn and ask questions.

This might also provide a good place to tie in much of the tutorials: "I'd put a snort IDS box on that segment"-> link to a snort tutorial, "Configure the firewall to allow/deny so and so"-> link to firewall tut (you get the idea)...


Well, what do you think?
Do you like the idea? Would you get into it? Could you learn from this?


Ammo