The Information Technology Department, through the Research and Consultancy Committee, conducted the first Information Technology seminar for students on 22 January 2019 in A109. The speaker for the event was Salim Al Badi, Information Technology student from Ibri College of Technology.
The objective of this seminar was to encourage the students to share their technological knowledge between them.
During the seminar, Salim discussed his project which is titled “Light Box Virtual Pen-testing Lab”. He explained in detail the idea of his project and the objectives, which are to enable the security specialist to find vulnerabilities in the web by using legal ways, and to enhance ethical hacking skills. After that he explained the common bugs that may affect web applications based on the Owasp.org website. Furthermore, in the practical part, Salim highlighted how to detect weaknesses by using his web site. In addition, he spoke about the tools that he used to build his project which are: Raspberry pi 3, ethernet cable and modem, and a power supply.
In the end, feedback was collected from members attending the seminar. The majority showed their satisfaction with the arrangements. On the scale of 5, the average feedback was 3.2.
The event ended at 2:10pm and four staff members and five students benefitted from the seminar.