IT - Emerging Threats and Countermeasures Research -1

 ONLY FOR MAESTRO 

Research Wiki Entry 1 

 

 

Please select from one of the topics listed below to complete your research wiki:  

 • Social Engineering 

 • Phishing attacks 

 • Cloud Cybersecurity Threats

 • Shadow IT  

 • Rogue Administrator

 • Cryptojacking • Ransomware

 • IOT device attacks

 • OT System Attacks (power factories, mining operations, SCADA)

 • Cyberwarfare escalation (major attack or disruption from foreign governments with the intent of creating major disruptions, massive economic impact, and potential loss of life) 

 • Blockchain hacks • Fileless attack (in-memory) 

 

Assignment  

 Each student will create a new wiki entry for a peer-reviewed research paper that should provide a summary or substantive commentary on the proposed topic.  

 

Wiki Entry 1  

 This first entry should contain the following three paragraphs: 

 1. Current landscape of cybersecurity and cyber-attacks in the world today 

 2. Provide an overview of your approved topic (what is it, how does this attack or danger work, why is this a major problem for an organization (i.e. One of the biggest challenges facing cybersecurity today is (insert your topic)

 3. Why is this still a threat in society today (why have organizations failed to address this properly, do not discuss the fix here, just discuss why this issue has lingered so long and still a problem today) 

 

• Each paragraph should have a minimum of 4 sentences and you must use a minimum of six peer-reviewed references total (maximum two from textbooks) • APA formatting is required and written at a scholarly level  

 Grading 

 Each wiki entry will be worth 100 points