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Assessment-1 Details
Unit Code and Title: SBM4304 IS Security and Risk Management
Assessment 1: Case Study
Due date:
Week 3
Group/individual:
individual
Word count / Time
700 words
provided:
Weighting:
10%
Unit Learning Outcomes:
ULO-1
Assessment Details:
The risk to organizations from a network attack has increased exponentially. Threats can occur at
any point on the internet where there is a potential weakness that hackers can exploit using
different types malware. As the number of devices grows, the potential for attack and disruption
increases.
Assume you are working as an IT security consultant at the IT department of ITech company. The
company uses data centres to store very important customer data. As an IT consultant, you have to
advice the staff about the phishing attack, their types and threats. In this context write a report
including the following sections:
1.
2.
Introduction about phishing attack and their impacts on the society
Discussion of any three recent variants of phishing attacks
3. The working mechanism of phishing
4. Potential threats posed by phishing.
5. Summary
6. References in Harvard style.
Marking Criteria and Rubric: The assessment will be marked out of 100 and will be weighted 10%
of the total unit mark
Marking
Not satisfactory
Satisfactory
Good
Very Good
Excellent
Criteria
(0-49%) of the
(50-64%) of the
(65-74%) of the
(75-84%) of the
(85-100%) of the
criterion mark
criterion mark
criterion mark
criterion mark
criterion mark
Introduction
Poor Introduction with
Introduction is
Introduction is
Introduction is well
Introduction is very
(10 marks)
irrelevant details
presented briefly
generally presented in written with clear
well written with very
with some
good fashion,
discussion about the
clear background,
relevance and
however missing one
impact of phishing on discussion about the
missing elements
element such as the
the society, and the
impact of phishing on
such as the impact
impact of phishing on report outline
the society, and the
of phishing attack on
the society/ the report
report outline
the society/ the
outline
report outline
Variants of
Poor discussion with
Brief discussion about Generally good
Very clear discussion
In-depth and very
phishing attacks
irrelevant information
some variants of
discussion about five
about five variants of
clear discussion about
(30 marks)
phishing attacks
five variants of recent
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variants phishing
Recent phishing
phishing attacks
attacks
attacks
understanding of the
sleeted project and
project scope
statement. Accurately
answered all
questions posed.
Working
Poor discussion with
Brief discussion about Generally good
Very clear working
A very detailed
Mechanism
irrelevant information
working
discussion about
mechanism of
and very clear
(20 marks)
phishing attacks
working
phishing attacks
working
mechanism of
mechanism of
phishing attacks
phishing attacks
Potential
Poor discussion
Brief discussion
Generally good
Very clear
A very clear and
Threats
about potential
about the potential
discussion about
discussion about
in
(20 marks)
threats with
threats
potential threats
potential threats
discussion about
irrelevant
potential threats
information
Summary not
Brief summary of the
Generally good
A section clearly
A section very
Summary
(10 marks)
relating to the
report
report with some
relevance
summary of the
report
summarizing the
overall
contribution
clearly
summarizing the
overall
contribution
References
(10 marks)
Lacks consistency
with many errors.
Unclear
referencing/style
Generally good
referencing/style
Clear referencing/
style
Clear styles with
excellent source
of references.
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