ou work as a research wing for a standard SOC (Security Operations
Center). The SOC keeps analytics on the current trends within the
network. Your team will be assigned a current issue that has been seen
at the border of the network, trying to infiltrate the organizations
network/systems. Upon being assigned your item, it will be your job to
go out and search OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) for more information
on the attack being observed. This could be a single port number, a
series of attacks that has been identified, or an IP address to research
and identify; your professor will assign this. Your deliverable will be
a 7 page APA style research report with your findings. Discover current
attacks being performed through this port, or current state of a known
scanning suite. Find sources, if possible, source code of attacks that
are known to exploit this weakness and break down the code. List known
services on the affected ports that are associated and current attacks
being performed on these services (list any CVE findings and briefly
list and explain). Look at SNORT rules that watch for these attacks and
list that SID.
Finally, to wrap-up your research, present the
current risk level associated with this threat. Use the FAIR methodology
to derive your threat assessment. The attached FAIR PDF will walk you
through your analysis. To complete the FAIR document:
- Step 1: Asset at Risk will be the organization’s primary e-commerce web server.
- Step 2: You will provide this answer based on your research.
- Step
3: You will provide this answer based on your research; however, keep
in mind how many times per day this is scanning the network, which will
be given to your when you receive your topic. - Step 4: You will provide this answer based on your research.
- Step
5: Assume the e-Commerce server is fully up-to-date and running the
following base software: Red Hat Linux, Apache, MariaDB, Drupal, PHP and
is hardened based on base NIST recommendations for operations. - Step 6-7: Calculate
- Step 8: Assume Moderate
- Step 9: Assume Moderate
- Step
10: Calculate and create this chart in excel with the appropriate item
highlighted. Include this chart in your paper and presentation.
Once
you complete your paper, you will need to create a presentation. Make
sure to include the chart from step 10 in your presentation, everything
else is up to you on how you want to brief the class on your findings.
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Research Paper Guidelines
You will be writing a research paper in the following format using APA guidelines:
INTRODUCTION
- State the research question you are trying to answer (You will pick 1 of the topics available as a group)
- State why the question is important
- State the issues involved
- State why we should be concerned with resolving whatever issues are involved
- State how answering the question will help us
- State the implications and consequences of dealing with or resolving the issues involved
REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE
Identify who has tried to answer the question before by doing the following:
- Summarize how each of the sources presents and deals with the subject
- Explain how each source presents and deals with its findings or results
- Explain the relevancy of each source to your research question
- State what you learned from each of your sources
- State in what way(s) each source contributes to answering your research question
DISCUSSION
State your answer to your research question
State
how and elaborate on how, explain how, illustrate how each of the
sources you previously reviewed help you answer your research question
State what questions about your topic you still have that your sources may not have answered
CONCLUSIONS
State the conclusions regarding your topic you have reached from having surveyed, interpreted, evaluated the literature
Indicate
how each of the sources have contributed to your conclusions (and
clearly, accurately, correctly document those sources within your text)
State the implications of your conclusions
State what might be the possible consequences of your conclusions
State the social significance these implications and consequences might have
DOCUMENTATION
On
a separate page, include a section labeled References which provides
the full publication information for all the sources you used in your
paper
You should have a MINIMUM of three (3) sources for your paper
Not meeting this minimum requirement of three (3) sources will lead to a lower evaluation of your paper for each missing source
Use APA format for documenting your sources
-For APA help: Purdue OWL
-For more details on journal types, refer to this link: Rutgers Library
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