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Security Architecture

MIS 5214 - Section 001 - David Lanter

Security Architecture

MIS 5214.951 ■ Spring 2023 ■ Jose Gomez
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  • Instructor
  • Syllabus
  • Schedule
    • First Half of the Course
      • Unit 0a – Introduction
      • Unit 0b – The Threat Environment
      • Unit 1a – System Security Plan
      • Unit 1b – Planning and Policy
      • Unit 2a – Case Study 1 – A High Performance Computing Cluster Under Attack: The Titan Incident
      • Unit 2b – Cryptography
      • Unit 3a – Secure Networks
      • Unit 3b – Firewalls, Intrusion Detection and Protection Systems
    • Second Half of the Course
      • Unit 4b – Case Study 2 Data Breach at Equifax
      • Unit 5a – Access Control
      • Unit 5b Host Hardening
      • Unit 6a Application Security
      • Unit 6b Data Protection
      • Unit 7a – Incident and Disaster Response
  • Deliverables
    • Assignments
    • Case Studies
      • Case Study 1 – A High Performance Computing Cluster Under Attack: The Titan Incident
      • Case Study 2 – Data Breach at Equifax
    • Team Project Instructions
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Unit 2a – Case Study 1 – A High Performance Computing Cluster Under Attack: The Titan Incident

Found in the Harvard Business Publishing course pack.  (Links to an external site.)

Questions:

  1. Who are the major stakeholders associated with Nordic Data Grid Facility (NDGF) and UniNETT?  What critical resources are stored within the system and what concerns might stakeholders have regarding the resources?
  2. How did employees, information security (infosec) processes, and infosec tools inadvertently help the attacker succeed in breaking into Titan?
  3. What should Margrete Raaum do now? Would you suggest that Titan is ready to be turned on for local access? Is it ready to be reconnected to the computational grid?

Upload your answers to the case study questions to Canvas no later than Saturday prior to the first face to face class at midnight.

Your written answers to the questions should not exceed one single-spaced page using 11 point Times New Roman font with one-inch margins. Be sure to include each question (including number) along with the answers in your document. Do not prepare a separate cover page, instead put your name, the class section number (MIS5214.401), and the case name in the top-left corner of the header.

You will name your submitted document file and upload it to Canvas using the following file naming convention: class section number (MIS5214-BNAI), followed by an underscore (“_”), followed by your name (last-first), followed by an underscore (“_”), followed by the Case for the assignment.  For example: MIS5214-BNAI_Lanter-David_Case1.pdf

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READINGS & CASE STUDY QUESTIONS

  • 0a – Introduction (1)
  • 0b – The Threat Environment (5)
  • 1a – System Security Plan (4)
  • 1b – Planning and Policy (4)
  • 2a – Case Study 1 (4)
  • 2b – Cryptography (4)
  • 3a – Secure Networks (5)
  • 3b – Firewalls and IDS and IPS (3)
  • 4b – Case Study 2 (4)
  • 5a – Access Control (5)
  • 5b – Host Hardening (3)
  • 6a – Application Security (4)
  • 6b – Data Protection (2)
  • 7a – Incident and Disaster Response (3)
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