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MOD002703 Advanced Network Security Principles - Anglia Ruskin University

ASSESSMENT ELEMENT CASE STUDY

Callister Inc. is new in Manchester and has opened a branch in Cambridge. The company has designed its network, but the design has several security flaws. They have approached Anglia Ruskin University with a consulting contract where brilliant students in MSc in Cyber Security students will design, implement and document a proper security solution that can accommodate the requirements of the company.

This document describes the current state of the network as well as the security requirements of Callister Inc. Finally, it describes the final deliverables for this assignment.

Security Analysis

As part of the consulting job Callister Inc. needs you to write a security analysis of their current network and come up with the security mechanisms needed to achieve basic network security. You must write a technical document that describes the security mechanisms you would recommend the company to implement supporting your decision with references to best practices and/or industry recommendations. The CCNA Security curriculum or the slides of any other security module from your course cannot be used as references but you can use white papers from Cisco or other similar documents.

Your analysis must consider the following mechanisms:

• Securing the network devices for administrative access (including AAA).
• Zone-based policy firewalls (only required in Manchester).
• Intrusion Prevention Systems.
• Layer 2 security.
• Virtual Private Networks (to communicate Manchester and Cambridge).

FOR SIMPLICITY PURPOSES YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO SECURE THE DMZ_NAT,
Cambridge_NAT NOR Manchester_NAT routers.

The analysis must be thorough and can include the addition of new elements to the networks that belong to the company. If your security analysis is incomplete, then this will also have an effect on your final configuration.

Formative Assessment

Students must submit the security analysis by week 7 of the teaching semester as a formative assessment so they can receive feedback from the module tutor.

Design and Implement the security of the network

Once you are happy with the security mechanisms to implement you must configure them in the topology. The use of Packet Tracer is permitted, and the initial topology is provided in Canvas Element 010 assessment literacy page (010_Case_Study.pka).

Testing the security of the network

Finally, you must provide a test plan of the security mechanisms. Your test plan doesn't need to include screenshots and it should just indicate the test that needs to be done to verify that the security mechanism is working properly. Table 3 shows an example on how to do the test plan, please note that show run must NOT be used as a command to verify a protocol.

Overall Document Quality
Students must use Harvard referencing style. Overall Quality and structure of the report must be appropriate.