Kyle Matthews
MP451 for 2 credits: Fall 2024
Welcome to my MP451 page. Here is a showcase of what I've done this semester!
Welcome to my MP451 page. Here is a showcase of what I've done this semester!
This semester, I have presented a few times on various topics. Here is a list of the lightning talks that I have given this year:
Gave a short presentation about how to create, customize, and display a readme.md file for your Github user page. This is a great way to help showcase your skills to employers, and let people see what you've been up to!
This presentation talked about M5Stack, a company that makes IoT components and various micro-controller powered computers.
The cardputer specifically was a development board with a lot of functionality.
This was a longer presentation and project proposal. Security Onion is a system that combines a bunch of features with a network intrusion detection system.
Not only does it collect alerts, but it also has packet analysis & capture, IP tracking, and event investigation.
This was a goofier lightning talk where I showed that people were using a nightstand/side table created by Ikea for their own homeservers.
Several people instantly looked into the possibilities of using this system.
After being made aware from some classmates, I did a short talk about the RPI Hackathon! This would have been a cool trip for people from the labs.
However it seemed most people were busy and it was too short notice for most.
Gave a short talk on Aider, an AI integration tool that allows you to connect your LLM of choice with a git repository, allowing you to make changes easier to your large scale projects.
Here are the projects that I've participated in this semester:
Participated in Juno's Red Team workshop where we talked about great tools that can be used in a pen testing environment. Kali Linux was what I decided to use for easy access to the tools. Most of the workshop was devoted to explaining the tools rather than using them.
Helped initialize COSI's new jump server, Caterpillar. Aided in configuration, hardware setup, and testing. This server is intended to help minimalize COSI's external points of entry. Using SSH keys, we are able to create a single ssh point of access to the network and servers.
Koma is the name ouf our Ids Ips system. It's an Ubuntu Virtual Machine running on the Wallace and Gromit cluster. It uses a system called Wazuh that collects datalogs from many end points, our firewall, and servers. It has now been fully deployed at Koma.cosi.clarkson.edu
I have participated in all of the forums so far this year, making sure to produce my input on how we can help improve the labs and bring more people in.
I have officially begun the cleanup project, getting about 25% though of how much I would like to complete in the labs. A lot of the holdup is machines that I'm not sure if they're peoples personal projects or belong to the lab. Regardless many cables, obscure machines, and random things have been moved and organized.
I was able to go down to COLO with Juno, Cary, and Anthony to help physically roll out the new mirror system. This was following the failing bootdrive we had discovered in mirror, so we made a swift and clean exchange with minimal downtime.
Helped Juno and Cary produce documentation in Book for Caterpillar.
I was able to help out within the first open house this semester, giving a presentation alongside Juno and Cary to try and get prospective students interested in cosi and what the clarkson computer science/software engineering programs have to offer.