Approximately 25% of the time in our signature Seminar is spent in or preparing for laboratory projects. Lab projects by CyberCorps students in Fall 2009 in this lab included an Optical Mouse Spy Device (submitted for presentation at Defcon 2010), Honey Pot Experiments, Intrusion Defense System - Installing and Experimenting with SNORT, Hardening Linux, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), and Bluetooth Security.

A number of laboratories are available to SFS students for their security-related experiments in a controlled environment and for participation in realistic exercises related to their CSIA education. One is adjacent to the classroom where the CSIA weekly seminar takes place. It has a completely stand-alone network that allows research and teaching while not having the possibility to disrupt the campus network or the Internet. Marymount also maintains a CSIA laboratory that is isolated from the main university network that is used for research and the capstone attack and defense classes in its Information Technology major. The lab also includes a Cisco mobile lab which is used primarily for research by students. There is another computer systems lab at GWs used for the Computer Network Defense course as well as for GWU's Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition team. There is also a forensic sciences lab with several Windows- and Linux-based forensic and steganography tools. Finally, as part of its participation in CyberWatch ( www.CyberWatchcenter.org ), GW may use the CyberWatch virtual lab facilities where GUI-interface firewall devices (SONICWALL PRO 2040 Internet Security Appliances) are available to offer challenging security oriented-technical training to managerially-oriented students who are not accustomed to using command line interfaces.

CyberCorps students also use the city as a lab. They typically do a "war walk" of the GW campus or a nearby downtown area in April of each year to gain familiarity with wireless security issues.