Final project paper
Final Project – Security Plan / Assessment to Include
- Policies – sample or areas that they should include or address
- Procedures
- What standards do you suggest following
- Suggested Incident Response Plan
- Testing – penetration tests – internal and external
- Training / awareness
- What should the client do to prepare for the audit
Final Project – Security Plan to Include
- Testing portion – Similar to an Ethical Hacking Plan – Someone asks you to test the system (inside and outside). What would you propose?
- Make it a business proposal and lay out all of the steps, naming exact tools and procedures
- Comment on what you could expect to find
- Lots of details – no simple overview, you have to have enough content to prove what you suggest will work or be of benefit
Final Project
- Goal is to tell me what I don’t know
- I don’t want you to tell me the easy stuff, I need to fix that beforehand
- Tell me how to prepare before you come in
- Run the Microsoft analysis tools, patch everything, make sure policies are up to date
- Request authorization
- You need a letter protecting you so you can explore my system
- If you don’t have the letter – you go to jail.
- Say that you will not do any destructive tests
Final Project Format
- Professional
- Any business format that you choose
- Executive Overview
- Table of Contents
- Sections
Final Project –
Business Security Plan
- Research and build what you would put into a detailed security plan for an organization:
- It needs to be written as a business proposal.
- Can be done in teams of 2
- At least a 15 page paper – of content….
- Or 20 for group of 2
Business Security Plan
- Research and build what you would put into a detailed security plan for an organization:
- Policies – samples or areas that they should include
- Procedures –
- What standards do you suggest following
- Testing – penetration testing - Ethical hacking
- Internal and external
- Training – what training would you offer employees (details)
Ethical Hacking Part
- The plan needs to show exact steps and procedures on how you would test security on a company.
- Internal threats
- External threats
- Detailed procedures, what you expect to find
Final Project
- Develop a Business security plan for a company (real or fictitious). It needs to include:
- Overall plan – General policies / procedures
- Ethical hacking – what tools, what do you expect as results or what are you looking for?
- The business owner has to understand why you are testing for certain things
- How would he know that he is getting what he is paying for.
- Security Awareness Plan – how to train employees
- What materials would you put on a reference list for each section?
- Can be a group of 2