Open Source Development

Security audit and Monitoring

Assignment - Experience Developing an IDS

Assignment - CW1 Technical report to identify network intrusion and vulnerabilities and recommend mitigation strategies

Assignment Task

This coursework is designed to assess your practical research and analytical abilities. Often, in the course of your career, you will find that you are faced with new/unfamiliar technologies and concepts designed to address a technical problems or company needs.

You have to complete a "hands-on" practical experiment and provide a technical report along with your personal reflection on the completed/attempted experiment.

Experiment title: Perform network intrusion detection with Microsoft Azure and open source tools. The link to the Microsoft "hands-on" lab and related documentation is on the Aula.

Learning Outcome 1: The Learning Outcomes for this module align to the marking criteria which can be found at the end of this brief. Ensure you understand the marking criteria to ensure successful achievement of the assessment task. The following module learning outcomes are assessed in this task:

• Recognize security vulnerabilities, identify and deploy the related controls
• Apply network intrusion detection techniques
• Critically evaluate techniques used to protect systems and data