CIS098- 2 Cyber Defence Tools, Assignment, University of Bedfordshire

Unit learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate the following knowledge and understanding:

Critically examine the frameworks, methodologies, tools and techniques for cyber defence and network attack analysis in terms of their effectiveness and suitability in different organisational contexts and threat landscapes

2. Demonstrate the following skills and abilities:

Flexibly and autonomously apply the frameworks, methodologies, tools, and techniques in real-time reputation intelligence in order to evaluate and respond to multi-faced attacks towards innovative and pragmatic solutions in network security

You are to research, investigate, demonstrate, and discuss a tool that will be allocated to you by the unit coordinator.
<Tool name – See your allocated topic in the “Assessment Topic Allocation.xlsx” file>

Task 1 :

Report your own work in a well-structured and written report with full explanations and justifications provided for tasks 2 to 4. Note the 15% for report structure, clarity of writing, and citations and references.

Task 2 :

You are required to research your allocated tool, briefly discussing its features, and its application in relation to Cyber Defence. You have to be very specific as to how this tool is used in Cyber Defence. No general textbook details, and no historical information about the tool should be included. Any content used from external sources must be written in your own words and cited using Harvard referencing (see Cite Them Right (citethemrightonline.com) and selecting Login via the institution option).

Task 3 :

You are to install, configure, and demonstrate the tool in operation using a walkthrough method (i.e. step-by-step with detailed explanations). For some allocated topics, you can use your host operating system (OS) to do the work, while for other topics, you may require the use of one or two VMs for the demonstration. As part of the demonstration, you have to capture full evidence in the form of screenshots, from your host OS, or VM(s) to confirm the operation of the tool. All commands and their results should be shown in the screenshots and not as cleartext in the report. All command parameters must be explained.

Your system or VM(s) MUST show your name or student’s ID. All screenshots must have your name or student’s ID appearing on them (not pasted as an image). For example, when using a VM, the VM name can be given your name or student’s ID. On a host, you can write the name or student’s ID in notepad to appear on all captured screens. Any screenshot with missing details will not be marked and may result in lower overall marks allocated to your work. VMWare Workstation can used in place of VirtualBox if issues are encountered with the latter.

Up to Five (5) marks deduction for failing to show your student ID in all screenshots will be incurred.

Task 4 :

Successfully complete the two Cisco courses Cyber Threat Management, and Network Defense, by the Friday of week 6 submitting the completion screens as evidence (You should only submit Gradebook output showing the completion with your username on it and the percentages of completion for each module). Five (5) marks deduction for failing to show your student ID on all screenshots will be incurred.

Task 5 Mini-Viva:

Each student will be required to attend a face-to-face mini-viva to be asked questions related to the tool they investigated and/or general ones related to the topic area of the tool. This will take place in week 6 during the Practical session.