Assessment Item 3

Value: 25%

Due date: 11-Sep-2017

Return date: 04-Oct-2017

Length: 2500 Words

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Task

Consider the following Case study. Please use the following URL to download and read the ENISA Big Data Threat Landscape 2016 document.
https://www.enisa.europa.eu/publications/bigdata-threat-landscape

And answer the following Questions: (5 marks each)

1) Provide a brief overview of the case study and prepare a diagram for the ENISA Big Data security infrastructure.
2) Out of the ‘’Top threats’’ which threat would you regard to be the most significant and why?
3) Identify and discuss the key Threat Agents. What could be done to minimize their impact on the system? Based on the data provided, discuss the trends in threat probability.
4) How could the ETL process be improved? Discuss.
5) To sum up, should ENISA be satisfied with its current state of IT Security? Why? Or Why not?

Rationale

This assignment is for students to meet the following learning outcomes.

• be able to justify the goals and various key terms used in risk management and assess IT risk in business terms;
• be able to critically analyse the various approaches for mitigating security risk, including when to use insurance to transfer IT risk;
• be able to critically evaluate IT security risks in terms of vulnerabilities targeted by hackers and the benefits of using intrusion detection systems, firewalls and vulnerability scanners to reduce risk.