General Guidelines

• A project group can consist of at most 2 individuals.
• I will select a few BEST projects for class presentation.

Technical Guidelines

• Investigate a system from the security point of view and point out vulnerabilities.
• Examples of systems: OS, web, Internet, private network, database, e-commerce, payment protocol, identification device, etc.
• Write a report and/or a presentation.
• The report needs to be 10-15 pages.
• The presentation should contain 15-25 slides.
• You need to investigate: flaws, vulnerabilities, weak points, etc.
• You may offer: solutions, remedies, fixes, etc.

Actions

• Send the title and abstract (Text file only) by e-mail.
• Here is an example title and abstract.
• Send the report or presentation (MS Word, PPT, or PDF file) by e-mail.

Example Projects Reports and Presentations

• Active content vulnerabilities: report and presentation.
• Address resolution vulnerabilities: report and presentation.
• Buffer overflow vulnerabilities: report and presentation.
• Denial of service vulnerabilities: report.
• Internet vulnerabilities: report and presentation.
• Unix vulnerabilities: report.
• Web vulnerabilities: report and presentation.
• Windows NT vulnerabilities: report and presentation.