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HI6044 Computer Network Security
Cyber security threats, challenges, and solutions for critical infrastructure
Purpose: 1. Apply cyber security principles to identify key cyber security components for IT networks;
2. Critically evaluate theoretical concepts and best practices to analyze various authentication, account management, network auditing and forensic tools that are used to investigate or prevent network security incidents;
3. Create and execute appropriate policy and risk analysis guidelines for the deployment of network security countermeasures and effective risk reduction strategies;
4. Evaluate and communicate network vulnerabilities, malware and social engineering attacks and their subsequent remedies to a diverse range of stakeholders;
Assignment Specifications
You are required to select any one of the listed topics and write an individual report including the following sections:
• History and background of the selected application.
• Literature review about your topic.
• Present the security challenges in implementing the application in a IoT environment based on the referred research papers.
• Current cyber security threats and challenges in critical infrastructures protection.
• Address the security issues.
• Analyse and review the existing security techniques and identify among them the best technique.
• Examine the security tools based on your selected topic.
• Investigate the relevant computer security tools and techniques that can be used to address the challenges of the above case.
• Propose/ Review some solutions that can be taken to overcome these challenges.
The list of topics are given below:
• Smart home
• Physical security.
• Healthcare Industry.
• Mobile Device Security.
• Working Remotely.
• Secure quantum communications.
• Secure communications for space.
• Cyber autonomy and automation.
• Wearables
• Smart City
• Smart grids
• Industrial internet
• Connected car
• Connected Health (Digital health/Telehealth/Telemedicine).
• Smart retail
• Smart supply chain
• Smart farming
Instructions:
Prepare your article as below
1. Go to the IEEE website and download the WORD template for the format.
2. Another link for the template:
3. Read and familiarise yourself with the instructions carefully.
4. Prepare a paper using the IEEE format and the example attached. Follow the template if there are any confusions. Also, refer to the link below to have ideas about how to start
5. Complete the assignment including all the sections below. The number of words will be counted thoroughly and you must keep the minimum number of words to avoid any penalties.
• Title (maximum 15 words)
• Abstract (100 - 250 words)
• Introduction (500 - 1000 words)
• Literature Review (500 - 1000 words)
• Main body (400 - 1000 words)
• Conclusion (200 - 300 words)
• Future Works (150 - 300 words)
• References (minimum 5 references)
6. The article must be a ‘Review'1 article, including at least 5 references and not more than 25.
7. Strictly follow the IEEE reference format for in-body citations and the references section.
8. See the attached files for guidance on how to prepare a review paper. You can also find thorough instructions from IEEE and the Internet.
9. Contents must include:
• History and background of the topic
• Challenges and drawbacks
• Examine the security tools based on your selected topic.
• Possible options (solutions) and future research areas proposed
• Include a minimum of two (2) figures to show the overall concept and summarised overview of the topic from the review of minimum 10 - 15 (but not limited to) papers
Attachment:- Computer Network Security.rar