Term Paper
Paper Topic on: Advantech - WebAccess (SCADA)
Paper requirements:
The paper shall be at least five (5) and no more than ten (10) pages in length excluding figures, tables, and references. The paper shall be formatted using an 11-point font of either Arial, Helvetica, or Times Roman type using 1" margins on the sides and double-spacing between lines with 0.5" indentation on first line of paragraphs.
The paper shall be written using the APA style guide seventh edition published in October 2019.
All tables and figures shall be captioned and specifically referenced in the body of the document. All references shall be stated and included as endnotes in this paper. Citations must meet the following requirements:
· No more than two (2) citations shall be from Wikipedia
· At least two (2) references shall be from United States government sites (e.g. CISA, NIST)
· At least two (2) references from vendor web (html) or printed (pdf) material
· At least two (2) references shall be from independent sources including but not limited to
· News Media Outlets (e.g. Reuters, Washington Post, Wired, CSOOnline)
· Industry Publications (e.g. Automation, ISSSource, Control)
· Trade Sources (e.g. Oil and Gas Journal, ChemWeek, PharmaTimes)
· Security Solution Providers (e.g. McAfee, Trend Micro, Dragos, Claroty) to name several.
A template has been provided meeting these requirements.
Grading for term research paper and associated presentation will be based on the following metrics:
20% = Ideas and Analysis 20% = Organization 20% = Development and Support 10% = Style 20% = Mechanics 10% = Presentation
Spelling and grammatical correctness will be used as marking against Mechanics. Use of current review editors such as those included with Microsoft Word are strongly encouraged.
CONTENTS AND STRUCTURE
The term research paper should be logically divided into sections that follow sound research paper style and address each of the following areas. You are free to organization the paper, however a template has been provided for the paper to help start the initial paper structure. The section titles (paper) in the templates are for reference only.
Your paper shall address and develop each of the following items:
1. System overview (textual) and architecture (graphical) covering devices and network topology explaining the function of each of the key assets
2. Communication protocols used by the system
3. Industry sectors that use the system
4. Vulnerabilities publicly disclosed for the system and the publication of any exploitation packages
5. Potential or actual impact of the vulnerabilities discovered to the industry sectors served
6. Cyber security measures taken by the vendor to secure the system
7. Additional cyber security measures that could be taken by the end-user user if the vendor recommendations are not feasible (e.g. an upgrade could not be performed in a timely manner)
Introduction
SYSTEM OVERVIEW AND ARCHITECTURE
MARKET ANALYSIS AND TYPICAL USE CASE(S)
MAJOR VULNERABILITY DISCLOSURES
IMPACT ANALYSIS
RISK REDUCTION RECOMMENDATIONS
CONCLUSION