Intrusion Detection and Response

Monthly Archives: June 2016

Weekly Notes and Presentations

Here’s a list of all our presentations thus far:

Class # Date  of Class Powerpoint Additional Items
1 Monday, May 9th Lecture #1 Review Videos on Wireshark
2 Wednesday, May 11th Lecture #2 Templates for IRPs
3 Monday, May 16th Lecture #3 Quiz #1
4 Wednesday, May 18th Lecture #4 Directions to Configure Snort
5 Monday, May 23rd Class Cancelled Submit Wireshark JPEG Assn
6 Wednesday, May 25th Installing Snort Deval’s: snort

Steven Tang’s: Snort

7 Monday, May 30th No Class No Class
8 Wednesday, June 1st Lecture #5 Quiz #2
9 Monday, June 6th Splunk-6.2.3-PivotTutorial Splunk Book
10 Wednesday, June 8th Lecture #6 Quiz Retake Opportunity* 
11 Monday, June 13th Lecture #7
12 Wednesday, June 15th Final Exam IRP Paper Due 

*After class, students will have the opportunity to take “Quiz #3.” Questions will be from any previous material. Of the THREE (3) Quizzes taken, Professor Deval will take the highest TWO (2) Quiz grades. 


Participation Notes :

Full participation credit is contingent on the completion of the following:

  • Wireshark Assignment (Extracting Images)
  • 3 Weekly Participation Submissions

IRP – Final Paper Notes:

Due: Saturday June 18th 2016 by 12pm

Students are tasked with creating an Incident Response Plan (IRP) template with a maximum of 4 team members. There is no page minimum or maximum. Assume any industry. Paper submissions should be sent by each individual student (regardless of a group submission)


Final Exam Notes:

Date: Wednesday, June 15th

Students will select NINE (9) of the TWELVE (12) Questions to answer. Students will be not rewarded for answering any more questions.

Time: 90 Minutes

Style: Open-Ended and Open-Note


Final Grade Distribution:

Final grades is broken into four components each worth 25%:

  • Participation (See above)
  • Quiz Averages (Average of the highest two quiz grades)
  • IRP Final Paper
  • Course Final Exam