Lab 5.3

ISE 620 Lab Guidelines and Rubric Overview: Each lab will be a valuable real-world experience utilizing network security tools to evaluate the security posture of an organization. You will use network security tools to identify security risks and vulnerabilities within an organization’s network. Your analysis will be instrumental in helping you identify remediation strategies to mitigate the security vulnerabilities identified. These labs and the problems in them are not directly related to your final project. Your focus will be on accurately completing and submitting all aspects of the lab so that your instructor can coach you on the skills you need to develop in this course. The feedback you receive from your instructor on these labs is important for you to hone these skills prior to beginning work on the various milestones for your final project. Prompt: Your lab assignments are set up for you to analyze network security tools and document the results within a virtual environment. Your evaluation of the network tools will require you to launch specific software applications, enter commands, and take screenshots of your results to submit as part of your lab. You will be required to configure network hardware and software components in order to mitigate security risks and vulnerabilities. You will export the documents from the lab environment, combine them into a single document, and submit the document via Blackboard for grading. Each lab has specific instructions within the lab itself. Each of your lab submissions will be scored according to the following critical elements:

A. Accuracy in Use of Tool The elements of the exported lab should have minimal or no functional issues in accuracy.

B. Completion of Lab Elements

All aspects of your lab should be completed.

C. Conclusions Your documentation, including all post-lab questions for the data collected, has minimal or no functional issues in accuracy.

Guidelines for Submission: Each lab must be submitted as an attachment in Blackboard. Submit all post-lab questions, including any data and analysis, in a single document (in Word or PDF format). Instructor Feedback: This activity uses an integrated rubric in Blackboard. Students can view instructor feedback in the Grade Center. For more information, review these instructions.

Rubric

Critical Elements Attempted With Minimal or No

Functional Issues (100%) Attempted With Significant Functional

Issues (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Accuracy in Use of Tool Lab elements specific to use of tool have minimal or no functional issues in accuracy

Lab elements specific to use of tool have some significant functional issues in accuracy

Lab elements specific to use of tool are not evident in submission

32

Completion of Lab Elements All aspects of lab are complete Some aspects of lab are incomplete Most aspects of labs are incomplete 32

Conclusions Documentation, including all post-lab questions specific to conclusions, has minimal or no functional issues in accuracy

Documentation, including all post-lab questions specific to conclusions, has significant functional issues in accuracy

Documentation does not evidence conclusions

32

Articulation of Response Submission has no major errors related to grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization

Submission has major errors related to grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas

Submission has critical errors related to grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas

4

Total 100%