Networks and Information Security Project
Submission of Periodic Group Progress Report
This Project Report number
Please tick (only one)
Report 1 Report 2 Report 3 Report 4
Due date:
Friday Weeks 4, 7, 9 and 11
Part:
Progress Report
Weighting:
Eight marks of total assessment (2 marks x 4 progress reports)
Submission:
Electronic (see course website for details)
This reporting period (e.g. week 4, 7, 9 or 11):
Week-4
Student ID:
Name:
Group members (Student ID and names):
Schedule review
This document mainly illustrates the status of the Network Infrastructure and Information Security Project after week 4. Basic requirements of this project are get extracted for a case study which describes network infrastructure and information security-related requirement for the City of Yule. A Project Plan document is created from requirement analysis and this document present the problem statement of the project formally. This document also defined the project milestones and there a probable deadline. Following the Six-Sigma standard, a Responsible Accountable Consulted Informed (RACI) matrix is created for proper distribution of the project among project group members. This matrix helps in proper monitoring of the project progress. For this work, Project objective is decomposed into two parts as:
- i) Network Infrastructure Design
- ii) Network Security Plan Design.
Two separate drafts are needed to create this two design plan. Network Security Plan is already created, and draft of the network design is in progress now. The task which is needed to be done in the upcoming weeks are:
- i) Draft of the network design
- ii) IP Addressing Scheme
iii) Risk Assessment document
- iv) Draft on Automation of Car Parking Revenue Control System and Council Elections via Online Electronic Voting.
More details about that activity and there corresponding deadline can be found in the Project Plan Document. List of the currently completed task and there description is given in the following table
1.1 Work completed
Activity #
Description
Date started
Assigned to
% complete
Requirement
Analysis
Identification of project need
100
Project Plan
Mile-stone and deadline setup for all project activity
100
DRAFT Network security plan
Proposal of the network security requirement and its probable solution space
100
Project Progress Report
Current status of the project after week 4.
100
DRAFT Network Infrastructure Plan
Proposal of the network security requirement and its probable solution space
45
1.2 Any Issues
Currently, the project is currently going through Network Infrastructure Draft designing, and in this phase, it has encountered few technical issue which is enlisted bellow.
What should be the structure of the Unified Threat Management and Intrusion Prevention and Detection System? Probable attack scenario and Intruder profile are not clear from the case study.
The issue in IP assignment, IPv4 or IPv6 which kind of IP address space is available for this project?
Risk review
In this initial part of the project, we have not identified any critical risk in the project, though there are several designing and implementation challenges they are not a potential threat to the system.
COIT20265 Networks and Information Security Project
Submission of Periodic Group Progress Report
Reporting week
Student ID:
Student Name:
Marker:
Component
Marks available
Marks awarded
Schedule Review
Work completed
0.5
Issues
0.5
Risk Review
0.50
Clarity of presentation (language and grammar)
0.5
Total
2.00
Penalty (Plagiarism / late submission)
Grand total
Marker’s Comment: