IoT security challenges and proposed countermeasures

Majmaah University College of Computer and Information Sciences

IT 343 Information Security Fall 2020

Suggested Project topics

Introduction: This assignment is for a group of 2 up 4 students working together to create a scientific report following the instructions given below. You are free to choose your topic, but you should obtain the approval from the course coordinator.

Suggested Topics: 1. Drone tracking, detection and Identification 2. IoT security challenges and proposed countermeasures 3. Behavior analytics to detect anomalous activities 4. Cybersecurity Analytics and Adversarial Machine Learning 5. Human aspect of the information security 6. Security of Virtualization in Software Defined Network 7. Denial of Service Attacks in Software Defined Network Security

Instructions: 1. The report should be submitted by one of your group members and

contain no plagiarism. 2. Each group must select a different topic. 3. Each student should take part in a project. 4. The project outline should be submitted in week 7. 5. The project report should be submitted in week 13. 6. Each group is required to conduct a presentation in week 14 and

each member is required to participate in this event. 7. The project report should be in academic method using appropriate

referencing style (e.g. IEEE, APA, Harvard…etc.). 8. Extra 2 marks for using LaTeX editor.

Marking Scheme: Units Marks Outline 3 Report 5 Group Presentation 4

Individual Presentation 2 Peer Evaluation 1 LaTeX (Extra) 2

Total 17 Marks

Instructions for the outline:

1. Abstract 2. Background (A brief history ... etc.) 3. Literature review (You should include 4 scientific papers) 4. Introduction (description) (Short) 5. Conclusion 6. References

Instructions for the final report:

1. Abstract 2. Background 3. Literature review 4. Introduction (description) (Long) 5. Discussion 6. Conclusion and future work 7. References