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BN223 Cyber Security Principles - Melbourne Institute of Technology

Assessment - Potential threats and mitigation tools for Network attacks

Learning outcom 1: Discuss the design and secure solutions for organisations in socio-technical context

Assignment Description

Assignment 1 is divided into two parts. Part A focuses on the recent attacks and security principles. Part B is about Attack detection and mitigation in Network. Once the first part is marked and constructive feedback is provided, the responses to the comments/feedback has to be tabulated and appended to Assignment 1b that would be submitted in Week 7.

Assume you have an interview for the cybersecurity analyst position with Regal Security Solutions Company. You are supposed to be prepared for the recent network attacks, their types, threats, and mitigation techniques. In this context write a report including the following sections, Part A and Part B:

Part A: Recent Network Attacks and Security Principles

In this part of the assignment, select any three of the network's recent attacks (which happened in the years 2016-2021). Carry out an in-depth literature review about these three attacks. Your discussion must address the following points with proper in-text citations.

A. Explain network security, network attacks and their impacts on the society.
B. Discuss any three Network attacks which happened in the years 2016-2020.
C. Identify and discuss the main reasons for these selected Network attacks being successful.
D. Report the importance of key terms in Information Security: asset, threat, threat actor, vulnerability, attack vector, attack surface in the context of these attacks.
E. Explain the working mechanism of the selected network attacks.

Part B: Attack detection and mitigation in Network

In this part of the assignment, the students will reflect on the feedback for Part A and discuss how did it help them to accomplish the tasks for assignment Part B. In this part students will write a report discussing the following sections:
A. Identify potential threats posed by network attacks.
B. Present one case study of data breach of the 21st century.
C. Analyse how the attacks, selected from part A, could be mitigated. Discuss three security tools to protect from the recent attacks that you submitted in part A. Hint, there are many tools in the open source such as like nmap, tcpdump, firewall, wireshark which are developed as a counter measure to network attacks.
D. Recommend any two mitigation techniques to tackle the network attack and discuss the effectiveness of the selected techniques.
E. Summarise the overall contributions of the report
F. References in the IEEE style.

Attachment:- Cyber Security Principles.rar