MITS5004 IT Security Assignment 1

Case Study and Presentation

NOTE: This Document is used in conjunction with Assessment 1 [Case Studies & Presentation] in the Unit Guide [MITS5004 IT Security-Unit Guide]

Objective(s)

This assessment item relates to the unit learning outcomes as in the unit descriptor. This assessment is designed to improve student presentation skills and to give students experience in researching a topic and writing a report relevant to the Unit of Study subject matter.

INSTRUCTIONS

These instructions apply to Assignment 1 – Case Studies & Presentation

Assignment 1 - Case Studies & Presentation -  10% (Sessions 5-12) Individual Assignment

For this component you will be required to do a 5-10 minute presentation on a recent academic paper on a topic related to IT Security. Some possible topic areas include but are not limited to:

• Encryption Techniques
• System and Network Security
• Digital Forensics
• Cloud and IoT Security
• Application Security
• Data Security
• Threats, attacks and malware
• Social Engineering and phishing attacks
• Ethical Implications in Wireless Networks
• Information Security Management and Risk Assessment

The paper you select must be directly relevant to one of the above topics or another topic and be related to IT Security. The paper must be approved by your lecturer and be related to what we are studying this semester in IT Security. The paper can be from any academic conference or other relevant Journal. All students must select a different paper. Thus, the paper must be approved by your lecturer before proceeding. In case two students are wanting to present on the same paper, the first who emails the lecturer with their choice will be allocated that paper. Please note that popular magazine or web-site articles are not academic papers.

A grade of 10% of the Units mark will be awarded for your presentation and your participation in other student presentations. You are to prepare a set of Power Point slides for your presentation. If you do not participate in at least 70% of other student’s presentations you will forfeit a significant proportion of the marks for this component.

Note: if class numbers are large the presentations may be organized into groups, but students will still all need to select their own individual paper for assignment 2. In the case where presentations are arranged in groups each group can decide which students paper will be used for the presentation.

The presentations will occur in sessions 5-12 on the academic calendar for the semester and the order of presentations will be by arrangement, but these will be evenly spread over those sessions.

What to Submit.

You are allocated marks based on your presentation and participation, a copy of the presentation (ppt) must be submitted on the Moodle link for Assignment 1