RECENT ASSIGNMENT

UPDATED 24/11/2014: Minor Assessment: Threat Profiling
Due Week 4, Worth 10%
Security professionals need to ensure that they keep up to date with the latest threats and security issues. This allows them to update their risk profiles, such as identifying if their systems are vulnerable. In order to determine what the risk to an organisation is, you need to know what the problems could be. In this assignment, your task is to identify a recently announced security vulnerability and write a profile of the threat. The profile should contain the name of the threat, the systems it attacks, how it performs its attack and the mitigation strategies. The risk to an organisation using vulnerable systems should also be determined. Your report should be about 800 words and should contain relevant tables, calculations, a ranked list of threats (in terms of impact) and conclusions. See the scoring sheet for this assignment, which is on the next page, and ensure that your report fulfils the criteria listed.
Scoring Type Score Description Content Fits with a profile 10 Appropriately choose a profile and stay within the parameters given. Reports that go outside the bounds will lose marks from this category. Profile completion 30 Completes the problems identified within the profile. You gain marks for ensuring that all of the points mentioned in the profile are covered in your report. Situational Crime Prevention 10 Places your countermeasures in the Situational Crime Prevention framework. Law 10 Reports should cover the impact of the law on their profile International scope 10 Your problem is placed within the international security scene and appropriately justified. Subtotal: 70 Subtotal for content Presentation Spelling and Grammar 10 The presentation’s content is appropriately written in English, with no spelling errors and grammar issues. Presentation and Style 10 The report is well presented, with diagrams, headings, tables and other visual aids. References 10 The report contains appropriate references and referencing style. Subtotal: 30 Subtotal for presentation Total: 100