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 Project,
assigned Monday, Sep. 24, 2001.
- Project due on Monday, Oct.. 01,
2001.
The objective of this project is to
learn about Internet Security in general and identify some current issues
in Internet Security.
The project explores a 1997 article,
"Security
of the Internet" Published in The Froehlich/Kent Encyclopedia
of Telecommunications vol. 15. Marcel Dekker, New York, 1997, pp. 231-255.
This article is online as a CERT¨
Coordination Center Report.
I also distributed a hard copy in class on Monday, Sep. 24, 2001.
The article,
"Security
of the Internet" in part observed as posted on the Web in February,
1998:
As of 1996, the Internet connected
an estimated 13 million computers in 195 countries on every continent,
even Antarctica. The Internet is not a single network, but a worldwide
collection of loosely connected networks that are accessible by individual
computer hosts in a variety of ways, including gateways, routers,
dial-up connections, and Internet service providers. The Internet
is easily accessible to anyone with a computer and a network connection.
Individuals and organizations worldwide can reach any point on the
network without regard to national or geographic boundaries or time
of day.
However, along with the convenience
and easy access to information come new risks. Among them are the
risks that valuable information will be lost, stolen, corrupted, or
misused and that the computer systems will be corrupted. If information
is recorded electronically and is available on networked computers,
it is more vulnerable than if the same information is printed on paper
and locked in a file cabinet. Intruders do not need to enter an office
or home, and may not even be in the same country. They can steal or
tamper with information without touching a piece of paper or a photocopier.
They can create new electronic files, run their own programs, and
hide evidence of their unauthorized activity.
For background information read the
following material:
Expected outcomes:
Student will be able to identify the
following:
- Current issues in Internet Security.
- Relate those issues to the cited
above article .
Tasks:
Read the resources above.
- Students may work together on this
project.
- Each student, however, must submit
their own work for Instructor review.
- Work must be completed as a Web
Site, published to our internal Web server.
- As much as possible, I am looking
for your own words, rather than a simple" cut and paste." I am looking
for some student analysis, that is critical thinking about these issues.
Complete the following tasks:
- Find three (3) articles on the World
Wide Web discussing some current issue related to Internet Security.
For each article:
- Provide a summary of the article.
- Describe how your chosen article
relates to the "Security
of the Internet"
- Include appropriate citation
and hyperlinks to each article.
- Find one (1) article in the printed
press discussing some current issue related to Internet Security.
For this article:
- Provide a summary of the article.
- Describe how your chosen article
relates to the "Security
of the Internet"
- Include appropriate citation
and hyperlinks, if applicable, to the article.
- You may submit your work in one
of two formats:
- Either, as
a MS Word document. (Please e-mail to me your Word document as
an attachment). OR
- Post your work as a Web site
on our internal Web server.
Related Internet Security Links include:
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