[Customer Story] University of Washington advances cybersecurity education with Azure Lab Services
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The iSchool at University of Washington sought a new approach to teaching cybersecurity and information assurance concepts. They setup Azure Lab Services with nested virtualization on a template VM and decided to create a custom image for their course
to enable the lab to be reused across multiple classes by attaching a compute gallery to their lab plan. This implementation created a controlled, vulnerable environment where threat scenarios could be safely played out in a cost-effective manner.
"Azure Lab Services is an amazing asset for teachers and professors who need a controlled, repeatable lab environment." - Associate Professor
"We’ve saved many hours and dollars that we used to spend consulting with IT and setting up and tearing down our labs.” - Associate Professor
"Azure Lab Services has been easy to maintain and mostly self-service for our users" - Senior Computer Specialist, IT
Learn more about University of Washington's approach with Azure Lab Services for easy to manage, reusable learning environments at Microsoft Customer Story-University of Washington efficiently advances cybersecurity education with Azure Lab Services
Learn more about how to set up an ethical hacking lab with Azure Lab Services
Thanks,
Azure Lab Services team
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