ITECH3215 Information Security

Question 1: Security professionals need to ensure that they keep up to date with the latest threats and security issues. This allows them to update their risk profiles, such as identifying if their systems are vulnerable. In order to determine what the risk to an organisation is, you need to know what the problems could be.

In this assignment, your task is to identify a recently announced security vulnerability and write a profile of the threat. The profile should contain:

1. Name of the threat,

2. Systems it attacks,

3. How it performs its attack,

4. Mitigation strategies,

5. Discuss on the scope of the threat in terms of who could be exploiting this vulnerability (Cyber criminals or state nations),

6. Concluding reflection (100 words) on the adequacy of the mitigation strategies.

 Your report should be maximum 2 pages and should contain relevant tables, calculations, a ranked list of threats (in terms of impact) and conclusions. See the scoring sheet for this assignment and ensure that your report fulfils the criteria listed.