Assessment 3: Case Study – Part 3
Value: 30%
Length: 2600-3100 words
Assessment 3 is the third of three assessments that focus on a single case study of a specific security incident. In this case study you will act as an IT Security Consultant for your customer – CricTech Pty Ltd. Using the information provided in the referent document “ITI581 Case Study Information.pdf”
provide answers to the tasks listed below for Assessment 3. Use the document entitled “Assessment 3 Template.docx” to submit your answers in the required format.
Assessment 3 Tasks
Re-familiarise yourself with the information provided in the case study information PDF, and your previous submissions for Assessment 1: Case Study Part 1 and Assessment 2: Case Study Part 2, to help you formulate answers to the following tasks.
Assessment Tasks
1. Evaluate, describe and justify any technical security related changes that you would recommend CricTech implements to better protect against future security attacks. (30 Marks)
Tip: Consider how you might move, add to, change or remove components of the IT systems to better protect CricTech, including hardware or software changes, you think are necessary and the benefits that you believe your suggestions would provide.
2. Evaluate, describe and justify any security related processes or procedures that you consider necessary in improving the security of the CricTech environment against future attacks. (20 Marks)
Tip: This question should consider any changes that you consider necessary to augment, or support, the changes you have suggested in Task 1.
Tip 2: Divide the word count approximately between the tasks based on the marks for each task i.e. ~60% of your word count should be used for Task 1 and ~40% for Task 2.
Marking Criteria (Rubric)
Criteria
HD
DI
CR
PS
FL
Evaluate,
describe and justify any
security
related
changes that you would
recommend
CricTech
implements to better protect against future security
attacks. (60%)
Evaluation and description of suggested
security
related
changes is
excellent; all
suggestions
are justified to an excellent
standard;
suggestions
are completely relevant within the context of this case study; suggestions
would provide significant
improvement over the
current design;
Evaluation and description of suggested
security
related
changes is very good; all
suggestions are justified to a very good
standard;
suggestions are very relevant within the
context of this case study;
suggestions
would provide large
improvement over the
current design;
Evaluation and description of suggested
security
related
changes is
good; all
suggestions are justified to a good standard; suggestions are largely relevant within the
context of this case study;
suggestions
would provide good
improvement over the
current design;
Evaluation and description of suggested
security
related
changes is
adequate; all suggestions
are justified to a reasonable standard;
suggestions
are somewhat relevant within the context of this case study; suggestions
would provide some
improvement over the
current design;
Evaluation and description of suggested
security
related
changes is
inadequate;
suggestions
are poorly
justified;
suggestions
are not
relevant within the context of this case study; suggestions
would provide little or no
improvement over the
current design;
Evaluate,
describe and justify any
security
related
processes or procedures
that you
consider
necessary in improving the security of the CricTech
environment against future attacks. (40%)
Evaluation and description of suggested
security related processes and procedures is excellent; all
suggestions are justified to an excellent
standard;
suggestions are completely
relevant within the context of this case study; suggestions
would provide significant
improvement
Evaluation and description of suggested
security
related
processes and procedures is very good; all
suggestions are justified to a very good
standard;
suggestions are very relevant within the
context of this case study;
suggestions
would provide large
Evaluation and description of suggested
security
related
processes and procedures is good; all
suggestions are justified to a good standard; suggestions are largely relevant within the
context of this case study;
suggestions
would provide good
improvement
Evaluation and description of suggested
security
related
processes and procedures is adequate; all suggestions
are justified to a reasonable standard;
suggestions
are somewhat relevant
within the
context of this case study;
suggestions
would provide
Evaluation and description of suggested
security related processes and procedures is inadequate;
suggestions are poorly justified; suggestions are not relevant
within the
context of this case study;
suggestions
would provide little or no
improvement over the
current design;

over the
current design;
improvement over the
current design;
over the
current design;
some
improvement over the
current design;