Assignment: VPN Technologies And Security Issues
Outcomes
Students should be able to demonstrate their achievements in the following unit learning outcomes:
a. Analyse and discuss the significance of VPN for contemporary organisations and how it addresses their concerns and security issues.
b. Explain the role of VPN, its limitations and works done to address these limitations as well as to supporting the security of businesses and corporations.
Description
Tasks:
There are two parts to this assignment, i.e. part A and part B.
A. Write a review article for the following topics depending on the last digit of your ID: select Topic 1 if it ends in an ‘odd' number or Topic 2 if it ends in an ‘even' number.
B. Presentation
Part A description:
1. Topic 1 - Significance of VPN for contemporary organisationsthat have branches nationally and internationally
A virtual private network uses a public network's infrastructure to make the connections among geographicallydispersed nodes, instead of using cables owned or leased exclusively for one single network's use, eg using of network that as is typical for a wide area network (WAN). To the user, a VPN looks like a private network, even thoughit shares the network with other users. There are several uses for a VPN. Analyse and discuss the significance of VPN for these contemporary organisations. List the concerns of contemporary organizations in communicating among their employees and clients, and comment if VPN can address their concerns. Discuss how VPN can be advantageous for securing computer communications.Address the issue of VPN security in details as described in section 3.
2. Topic 2 - VPN Replacement Technologies
Legacy VPNshashad some major drawbacks and problems such as the ones described below. There have been attempts to resolve the issues, and some technologies are being deployed as alternatives, e.g. Microsoft DirectAccess, SoftEther VPN etc. List the limitations/problems existed in legacy VPNs and review alternative options to resolve and overcome the problems of legacy VPNs. Address the issue of VPN security in details as described in section 3.
Common Part- VPN Security Issues
Fundamentally, VPN is known as being secure and safe; however, there are still many issues with regards to security aspects. A simple Google search of ‘VPN security' displays 135 million results. Search the internet for relevant articles/papers, and compare and analyze what these security issues are and what solutions they propose.
Instructions:
Prepare your article as below
1. Go to the IEEE website and download the WORD template for the format.
2. Read and familiarize yourself with the instructions carefully.
3. Prepare a paper using the IEEE format and the example attached. Follow the template if there are any confusions. Also, refer to the link below to have ideas how to start (see section 5).
4. Complete the assignment (minimum 5 and maximum 8 pages) including all the sections below. The number of words will be counted thoroughly and you must keep the minimum number of words to avoid any penalties.
• Title (maximum 15 words)
• Abstract (200 - 250 words)
• Introduction (500 - 1000 words)
• Literature Review (500 - 1000 words)
• Main body (1000 - 1500 words)
• Conclusion (200 - 300 words)
• Future Works (150 - 300 words)
• References (minimum 10 references)
5. The article must be a ‘Review' article including at least 5 references and not more than 25.
6. Strictly follow the IEEE reference format for in-body citations and the references section.
7. See the attached files for guidance on how to prepare a review paper. You can also find thorough instructions from IEEE and the Internet.
8. Contents must include:
• History and background of the topic
• What are the challenges and drawbacks, what solutions and workouts they found
• Possible options (solutions) and future research areas proposed
• Scopes of topic, progress of developments such as requirements, benchmarking, purposes & objectives, stakeholders, owners, roles and responsibilities where applicable.
• Flowchart
• Include a minimum of two figures to show the overall concept and summarized overview of the topic from the review of minimum 10 - 15 (but not limited to) papers.
• Include a couple of tables to summarize the result of findings
• How each organization approaches, initiates, develops procedures and ownerships, and what results they got, and how it affected their businesses.
• What you conclude in terms of the topic/solutions to implement in an organization. Consider other aspects to include for a good review paper.
9. Remember to strictly follow the template and the instructions above to avoid penalties.
Part B description:
Prepare slides (between 5 - 10 slides) for presentation during the lab class. Read the instruction attached carefully.
Instruction for Presentation
1. Submit your slides to Moodle to comply with the assignment marking criteria. I suggest you include the format below.
• 1st slide: title, name, ID, date, Tutor etc
• 2nd slide: Introduction including definition, brief explanation of the topic, and the structure of the remaining presentation clearly
• 3rd slide: Figure/table to show the overview of the topic
• 4th and 5th slide: Detail explanation of the topic. This can be extended by 1 or 2 more slides
• 6th slide: Advantages and Disadvantages, Problems, Solutions etc
• 7th slide: diagram, figures, pictures to support the previous slides.
• 8th: Future works: what to be done, what are the trends? This slide can be located after the conclusion.
• 9th: conclusion
• 10th: References: all references should have in citation and properly referenced in text and references following IEEE format.
2. Presentation.
You should present in clear English so that audience can understand what you are talking about. Speak slowly, clearly and loudly.
Article: A Disaster Recovery System for Location Identification-based Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) by James Jin Kang, Iryna Khodasevych and Sasan Adibi.
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.
Attachment:- IEEE-Template.rar