Throughout this course, you will be developing a framework to bring focus to areas of concern for the enterprise to take action toward implementing best practices for network security.
The weekly Individual Project assignments will culminate in the final Key Assignment. Each weekly assignment will build upon the work and knowledge of previous weeks.
You will create 1 single document that contains all of the weekly assignments in separate sections, culminating with the final submission.
Additional information and the deliverables for each Individual Project will be provided in the assignment description for this project. You are responsible for adding each of these ongoing Individual Project assignments into your Key Assignment document.
The Network Architecture Security Plan Proposal will consist of the following deliverables:
Section 1: Introduction
Section 2: Network Architecture
Section 3: Managing and Protecting Data
Section 4: Risk Assessment
Section 5: Digital Evidence Controls, Computer Forensic Analysis, and Recovering Files
Section 6: Recommendations for Best Practices
The following is the outline for the document shell:
Use Word
Title Page
Course number and name
Project name
Student name
Date
Table of Contents (TOC)
Use an autogenerated TOC.
This should be on a separate page.
Be sure to update the fields of the TOC so it is up-to-date before submitting your project.
Section Headings (create each heading on a new page with TBD as content except for sections listed under New Content below)
Introduction
Network Architecture
Managing and Protecting Data
Risk Assessment
Digital Evidence Controls, Computer Forensic Analysis, and Recovering Files
Disaster Recover and Business Continuity Policies
Training Plan
Recommendations for Best Practices
The project deliverables for Week 1 will include the completion of 2 sections.
Section 1: Introduction
You are a system administrator, and you have been selected to develop a Network Architecture Security Plan Proposal for an enterprise or organization with which you are familiar or for a fictitious enterprise.
The first step will be to select an enterprise or organization as the target for your Network Architecture Security Plan Proposal. This project will be used as the basis for each of the assignments throughout the course and should conform to the following guidelines:
The selected enterprise should be large enough to reflect the need to consider the adoption of the Network Architecture Security Plan and best practices for network security.
You should be familiar enough with the organization to allow focus on its network architecture.
Select an enterprise that fits these requirements, and address the following:
Describe the organization, including a company size, a company location, and a list of products or services.
Include the rationale for your choice.
Section 2: Network Architecture
Complete the following:
Describe the network architecture for this organization.
Identify physical structures, major types of hardware used to connect computers and networks together, and the way data travels through the network.
Include a diagram to help support your description of the network architecture.