CSC-365 Network Security Theory Assignment 3 Brief 2025

CSC-365 Scenario

In this scenario, E-Tat Marketplace is a startup company providing a digital marketplace for pre-owned goods. The usage of the platform has increased significantly, so they are looking to invest in a larger and more secure network. They have hired you as a security consultant to design them a new secure network from scratch. However, you are constrained to using their approved hardware and staying within the budget. 

CSC-365 Learning Outcome to be assessed 

Display critical awareness of the relationship between theoretical and practical security concepts and their implementation. 

Details of the Task 

This assignment requires you to interpret the criteria and produce a secure network design that meets the company's criteria. Your work should be presented as a professional report to give to the company; the quality, presentation and writing of this report will be assessed. This is a group assignment, and all design, diagrams and explanations should be your work. Although you are strongly advised to undertake additional research, the use credible academic resources should be used to strengthen your work. Your report should use the Harvard or IEEE referencing style.

Task 1

The current logical and physical network designs for E-Tat Marketplace's network are available on Canvas. You are required to carefully analyse these designs and identify and explain five security weaknesses within this design. For each weakness, you need to include the following:

A snippet of the respective network design (annotations are encouraged) demonstrating the area of the design being discussed.

Task 2

E-Tat Marketplace has asked you to design a new network from scratch for their business. This new design should be based on the provided requirements ONLY (no inclusion of existing components is required). You are to create a secure and resilient network design, and document this in a technically detailed and professional report. The design can only utilise the approved hardware listed in Table 1, it must fulfil all of the service requirements shown in Table 2 and provide 10 PCs for staff to use. The cost must be within the company's budget of £100,000.