Assignment
The recommended length for the final exam is 10 - 15 doubled spaced pages excluding diagrams, illustrations or other addendum. The use of APA formatting is required for any in-text citations and reference list. Please submit ONE document for all answers in Word or PDF, along with the Turnitin originality report, in the Final Exam assignment folder in WebTycho by the due date. I expect the response to immediately follow the question as follows:
Tasking One -- approximately 600 - 1000 words (2 - 4 pages) excluding diagrams, illustrations or other addendum.
2. Tasking Two -- approximately 600 - 800 words (2 - 3 pages) excluding diagrams, illustrations or other addendum.
3. Tasking Three -- approximately 600 - 800 words (2 - 3 pages) excluding diagrams, illustrations or other addendum.
4. Tasking Four -- approximately 600 - 800 words (2 - 3 pages) excluding diagrams, illustrations or other addendum.
Scenario
You are a senior security analyst for Blue Moon Financial (BMF), a large financial services firm that has detected a potential network intrusion during the middle of the night. A technician has called you at your home and woken you from a deep sleep to describe suspicious behavior. There has been a recent rash of network intrusion attacks at other financial services firms, and your organization has detected an elevated amount of port scanning and other types of reconnaissance activity.
Senior management at BMF has recognized the potential cyber threats that could seriously impact the sustainability of the company and has committed budgetary money for technical resources and training, although at a level that would be considered modest by most standards. The challenge that you have had as the senior security analyst is that once you get a technician trained to a sufficient level they get hired away to work for another organization. As such, your current security team is inexperienced and you are the only person with significant incident response experience. You have recently begun developing an incident response plan, but it is only in the early stages of development.
You quickly log into the network from your home to check the logs and your intrusion detection system and quickly determine that your organization is under an active attack.
Your Tasking
Describe your plan for responding to the network intrusion incident. Some of the items you will want to cover include (this list is not all inclusive):
a. What your first steps are now that you have confirmed the attack
b. Who should be involved in the response
c. How you will compensate for your team's inexperience
d. What type of resources are necessary
e. What protection measures need to be considered
2. Communication and Coordination Plan.
Who do you call and when
How do you identify priorities and assign resources
How will you communicate with incident responders during the response
How and when will you communicate with management during the response
3. Determine how you will determine further information about the source of the attack.
Type of attack
Where it may have originated from - attribution
The extent of the attack
Whether there is a single attack or if this is part of a complex series of incidents
Other considerations.
4. Discuss how you will handle potential evidence.
Chain of custody and preservation.
Analysis and reporting.
Other items.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.