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MN610 Virtual Private Networks Assignment - Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia

Assessment Title - VPN Technologies and Security issues

Unit Learning Outcomes -

a. Analyse and discuss the significance of VPN for contemporary organisations and how it addresses their concerns and security issues.

b. Explain the role of VPN, its limitations and works done to address these limitations as well as to supporting the security of businesses and corporations.

Assignment Description -

Tasks - There are two parts to this assignment, i.e. part A and part B.

A. Write a review article for the following topics.

B. Presentation (to present in 8-10 slides only in 6-8 minutes during Laboratory time). Students should understand the work presented in part A and they should base their presentation based on their report in part A.

Part A description:

1. Topic 1 - Establishing Cloud Computing Security with VPN

Cloud storage is a service model in which data is maintained, managed, backed up remotely and made available to users over a network or internet. It permits the client to store files online so that the user can access them from any location via the internet. The provider company makes them available to the user online by keeping the uploaded files on an external server. A major challenge for cloud computing providers is to deliver sufficient security levels to protect users' data. A lot of research has been carried out with this target.

Discuss how to secure connectivity to public cloud networks with VPN with different scenarios.

Evaluate public cloud performance considering varying security schemes of firewalls and VPNs under the four scenarios: no firewall no VPN, firewall-only, VPN-only and a combination of firewall and VPN. Investigate the impacts of using VPN together with firewall on cloud computing performance.

Address the issue(s) of VPN security in details as described in common part section.

2. Topic 2 - Secure remote access approaches and VPN Replacement Technologies

Secure remote access is a method of monitoring which combines a hardware and software system to simplify remote network access. Discuss about their similarity and compare secure remote access approaches with VPN from the security standpoint.

Legacy VPNs has had some major drawbacks and problems such as the ones described below. There have been attempts to resolve the issues, and some technologies are being deployed as alternatives, e.g. Microsoft DirectAccess, SoftEther VPN etc. Discuss the limitations/problems existed in legacy VPNs and recommend alternative options to resolve and overcome the problems of legacy VPNs. Address the issue of VPN security in details as described in common part section.

Common Part - VPN Security Issues

Fundamentally, VPN is known as being secure and safe; however, there are still many issues with regards to security aspects. A simple Google search of 'VPN security' displays 135 million results. Search the internet for relevant articles/papers, and compare and analyze what these security issues are and what solutions they propose.

Complete the assignment (minimum 5 and maximum 8 pages) including all the sections below -

1. Title (maximum 15 words)

2. Abstract (200 - 250 words)

3. Introduction (300 - 500 words)

4. Literature Review (500 - 1000 words)

5. Main body (500 - 100 words)

6. Conclusion (200 - 300 words)

7. Future Works (150 - 300 words)

8. References (minimum 10 references)

Contents must include:

History and background of the topic.

What are the challenges and drawbacks, what solutions and workouts they found?

Possible options (solutions) and future research areas proposed.

Scopes of topic, progress of developments such as requirements, benchmarking, purposes & objectives, stakeholders, owners, roles and responsibilities where applicable.

Flowchart

Include a minimum of two (2) figures to show the overall concept and summarized overview of the topic from the review of minimum 10 - 15 (but not limited to) papers.

Include a couple of tables to summarize the result of findings.

How each organization approaches, initiates, develops procedures and ownerships, and what results they got, and how it affected their businesses.

What you conclude in terms of the topic/solutions to implement in an organization. Consider other aspects to include for a good review paper.

Part B description:

Prepare slides (between 8 - 10 slides) for presentation during the lab class.

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