Assignment - Network and Information Security
The goal of this assignment is to provide exposure to a typical network security problem. This is an individual assignment.
For the assignment, you are required to implement (or test) a security mechanism and write a report, or to write a research report based on an in-depth analysis (possibly with a case study).
The topic, may be of your interest, needs to be approved in advance by the course convenor; other than that, there are no restrictions.
If you choose to complete a research report (not an implementation or a test of a security mechanism) for the assignment, the research report should be of at least 1500 words.
The exact marking scheme will depend on the type of project (e.g. level of implementation required/ non-implementation/ etc). However, the following may be used as some indication:
For implementation projects:
Implementation -
Report -
For reports which do not involve any implementation:
Format & Presentation -
Review of literature and related work -
Critical analysis -
References -
Possible Topics:
You can choose one of the following topics to complete the assignment:
• Developing an encryption/decryption demo (mainly for learning and teaching purposes)
• Developing a secure on-line micro-payment system
• Developing a simple biometric authentication model
• Developing firewall architecture for WLANs
• Developing security management framework for wireless networks
• Enhancing security in Internet banking
• Phishing attacks and multi-factor authentication
• Customization/Personalization and privacy protection in electronic commerce
• Cloud computing security
• Big data and privacy
• IPsec implementation issues in wireless networks
• IPv6 security
• Secure wireless routing
• Challenges and solutions for security in mobile ad-hoc networks
• Security in peer-to-peer networks