Ideas for projects in undergraduate information assurance and security courses

In this work, we present some ideas for projects that can be used in undergraduate Information Assurance and Security (IAS) courses. The projects range from cryptanalysis of ciphertext, network security, security vulnerability analysis, and programming to demonstrate buffer overflow. The projects can be used in IAS courses such as cryptography, network security, and computer security. Alternatively, they can be used as separate modules in computer science courses such as operating systems, networking, and programming. Some of these projects have been piloted by the author and have achieved their objectives.