Summary of physical tamper-resistant devices (Individual Paper) Print Page Given that you have covered a wide variety of topics on security applications, now is a good time to stop and reflect on the material you covered this Week. For this Assignment, you will summarise what you have learned about physical tamper-resistant devices.
To prepare for this Assignment, use the UoL library to research and make a list of different types of physical tamper-resistant devices used in information security, with an emphasis on their characteristics.
Consider the differences and similarities among those types and identify any emergent themes.
To complete this Assignment: Write a concise summary of the themes emerging from your research on the characteristics of tamper-resistant devices and the similarities and differences among them. You do not need to include the full list of devices and their characteristics that you prepared.
As part of your summary, evaluate the relative effectiveness of different strategies for making a device temper-resistant. For all Assignments: Your document should have 750-1,000 words (not including the list of works cited), but it is the quality of the answer that matters, not the number of words.
Cite and reference all sources use the Harvard Liverpool Referencing System. By Day 7, upload your document using the Turnitin submission link for this Assignment. Personal firewalls and related tools (Group Project) Print Page This is a 2-week Group Project. Part 1 should be finished during this Week (Week 5).
Part 2 should be finished during Week 6. Both are combined into one file and uploaded to turnitin in Week 6. Each group needs to start a discussion thread under your Group Project forum to answer the 'Preparation' sections of Parts 1 and 2.
Then, collaborate to produce one group report for Part 1 and one group report for Part 2 (submitted at the end of Week 6). All members of the group should submit a copy of the Assignment to Turnitin in Week 6. Part 1 (to be completed by the end of Week 5): Preparation: Install a firewall that you already know or use your own OS firewall tool.
There are many firewalls freely available. The article 'Personal Firewall Reviews' (Markus, 2013) provides some examples and ideas. The whole group should not use the same personal firewall. Discuss each individual member's choice of the personal firewall and provide some justification for the decision. Test the personal firewalls you each selected with an invited attack. You can then visit a Web site that will perform a controlled invited attack, for example, the Gibson Research Corporation (2014). Create a report: Briefly summarise what personal firewalls can do and what they cannot do to protect your personal computer. Present one potential benefit that you get from installing a personal firewall; something that you cannot do without it. Report your findings from the invited attack on your firewalls. Distinguish between the function of a personal firewall and that of antivirus software, anti-spyware software and their relationship to personal firewalls.
Part 2 (to be completed by the end of Week 6): Preparation: Download and install any security-related tools package. Some possible examples include (but you are not limited to): .Microsoft Windows Sysinternals site (Microsoft, 2014) .Fport for Windows from the McAfee site (McAfee, 2014) .Lsof for Linux from the Free(code) site (Abell, 2013) .Other tools from the CHIHT site (ENISA, 2014, see the proactive tools section)
Create a report: Describe your experience working with your chosen security-related tools. Analyse which aspects of the tools will be useful for security purposes for experts and for normal users.
Submit your report (both Part 1 and Part 2) to the Turnitin link by the end of Week 6. References: Abell, V. (2013) Lsof [Online].
Available from: https://people.freebsd.org/~abe/ (Accessed: 20 October 2014). ENISA. (2014) Clearinghouse for incident handling tools [Online].
Available from: https://www.enisa.europa.eu/activities/cert/support/chiht (Accessed: 20 October 2014). Gibson Research Corporation. (2014) Welcome to ShieldsUP! [Online].
Available from: https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 (Accessed: 20 October 2014). Markus, H.S. (2013) 'Personal firewall reviews', Home PC Firewall Guide [Online].
Available from: https://www.firewallguide.com/software.htm (Accessed: 20 October 2014). McAfee. (2014) Fport v2.0 [Online].
Available from: https://www.mcafee.com/us/downloads/free-tools/fport.aspx (Accessed: 20 October 2014).
Microsoft (2014) Sysinternals security utilities [Online]. Available from: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/25e27bed-b251-4af4-b30a-c2a2a93a80d9.aspx (Accessed: 20 October 2014). Seperate individual project and group project