CSCE 813 – Internet Security

Spring 2014

Project Information

1. Evaluate your professional and personal strength and weaknesses

· List your strengths that influence your professional performance in the field of computing. These may include skills, knowledge, personal traits, such as diligence, focus on details, etc.

· Provide one or more objective justification for each strength you’ve identified, such as completed project and client satisfaction, awards, etc.

· List your weaknesses (both personal and professional) that may influence your performance. For example, limited coding experience outside of class projects, tend to wait for the last minute to work on the assignments, etc.

· Provide one or more strategies that you plan to apply to limit the effect of the weaknesses on your performance, e.g., set up a schedule to start project on time, seek the collaboration of an experienced developer, etc.

Be as thorough as possible! Your gain is to understand your current capabilities and limitations!

Ask a friend who knows you well to compose the same lists and their justifications. Do not give suggestions!

· Compare your and your friend’s evaluation.

· Clarify your conflicts and similarities

· Rank your strengths and weaknesses

Use your own lists and your friend’s lists to write an “honest” resume that includes your selected strengths and weaknesses and their corresponding justifications and mitigation strategies.

· Have the standard resume format and information (Name, address, contact info, education, work experiences, activities, awards, etc.)

· Include a detailed Strengths and Weaknesses section discussing the highest ranked characteristics

Submit your resume only.

Due Date: January 30, 2014

2. Project proposal: 2 pages, double spaced, 12 pt.

i. Main area of the proposed project

ii. Goal of the project and importance of the goal

iii. Initial list of relevant materials

iv. Group members and their strength with respect to the project

The aim of the research paper is that you gain understanding of a specific topic in Internet Security and identify future directions of the field. Try to answer questions like “Are the current technologies sufficient to provide security for Internet Applications?”, “What are the upcoming research and development areas? Do they create new security threats?”, “Can we provide security assurance for Internet applications?”, etc.

Focus your research of interest. Pick a specific topic within your area of interest, e.g., SOAP messages integrity.

Submit your proposal

Due Date: February13, 2014

3. Perform detailed research of the chosen topic and propose a project: 8-10 pages, double spaced, 12 pt

Gather additional publications on the chosen topic. In general, you’ll read around 10-20 papers, depending on the depth and coverage of the materials. The aim is to gain a clear understanding of the current state of research on the chosen topic and related issues.

Propose a project to develop technology to overcome some of the limitations identified reading the related work. You should include sufficient technical details to convince the reader that your approach is feasible. This generally requires that you perform some initial work related to the project. Include discussion on how your approach complements existing technologies and improves upon them.

Submit Proposal DRAFT

NEW! Due date: March 13, 2014 March 18, 2014

4. Final report

Create a final proposal (20-30 pages, double spaced, 12 points) that contains your completed proposal and bios of the group members.

Submit Proposal with all sections fully included

Due date: April 10, 2014 April 14, 2014 NOON

5. Student Presentation

Each student will present the related work section to the class.

Presentation time will be established later.

Percentage of final project grade per components

1 : 10%

2. : 15%

3. : 25%

4. : 40%

5. : 10%

Final report Format

Abstract (1 page, single spaced, 11 points)

Introduction

<Brief overview of

a. Problem description, its importance

b. Representative example

c. Brief description of related works

d. What is missing?

e. Your work addressing the research gap (BS students do not need to add this portion)

>

Related Works and their Limitations

<Make sure include all relevant works and be factual about the limitations.

e.g., “XY proposed a methods that is limited.” Is not enough. Give specifics

on what these limitations are.>

Description of project

<Several chapters on the proposed project, initial results, expectations, etc.

You need to convince the reader that the work is important, needed and that

you’re capable of performing the proposed work. >

Conclusion

References