Week 10 Term Paper Click the link above to submit your assignment. Students, please view the "Submit a Clickable Rubric Assignment" in the Student Center.  Instructors, training on how to grade is within the Instructor Center.  Term Paper: Penetration Testing Due Week 10 and worth 120 points As a penetration tester, you are hired as a consultant by a small- to mid-sized business that is interested in calculating its overall security risk today, January 1, 2012. The business specializes in providing private loans to college students. This business uses both an e-Commerce site and point-of-sales devices (credit card swipes) to collect payment. Also, there exist a number of file transfer operations where sensitive and confidential data is transferred to and from several external partnering companies. The typical volume of payment transactions totals is approximately $100 million. You decide that the risk assessments are to take into account the entire network of workstations, VoIP phone sets, servers, routers, switches and other networking gear. During your interview with one of the business’s IT staff members, you are told that many external vendors want to sell security networking products and software solutions. The staff member also claimed that their network was too “flat.” During the initial onsite visit, you captured the following pertinent data to use in creation of the Penetration Test Plan. · Non-stateful packet firewall separates the business’s internal network from its DMZ. · All departments--including Finance, Marketing, Development, and IT--connect into the same enterprise switch and are therefore on the same LAN. Senior management (CEO, CIO, President, etc.) and the Help Desk are not on that LAN; they are connected via a common Ethernet hub and then to the switched LAN. · All of the workstations used by employees are either Windows 98 or Windows XP. None of the workstations have service packs or updates beyond service pack one. · Two (2) Web servers containing customer portals for logging in and ordering products exist on the DMZ running Windows 2000 Server SP1, and IIS v5. · One (1) internal server containing Active Directory (AD) services to authenticate users, a DB where all data for the company is stored (i.e. HR, financial, product design, customer, transactions). The AD server is using LM instead of NTLM. Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you: 1. Explain the tests you would run and the reason(s) for running them (e.g. to support the risk assessment plan). 2. Determine the expected results from tests and research based on the specific informational details provided. (i.e., IIS v5, Windows Server 2000, AD server not using NTLM) 3. Analyze the software tools you would use for your investigation and reasons for choosing them. 4. Describe the legal requirements and ethical issues involved. 5. Using Visio or its open source alternative, provide a diagram of how you would redesign this business’ network. I.

1. Week 10 Term Paper
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Term Paper: Penetration Testing
Due Week 10 and worth 120 points
As a penetration tester, you are hired as a consultant by a small-
to mid-sized business that is interested in calculating its overall
security risk today, January 1, 2012. The business specializes in
providing private loans to college students. This business uses
both an e-Commerce site and point-of-sales devices (credit card
swipes) to collect payment. Also, there exist a number of file
transfer operations where sensitive and confidential data is
transferred to and from several external partnering companies.
The typical volume of payment transactions totals is
approximately $100 million. You decide that the risk
assessments are to take into account the entire network of
workstations, VoIP phone sets, servers, routers, switches and
other networking gear. During your interview with one of the
business’s IT staff members, you are told that many external
vendors want to sell security networking products and software
solutions. The staff member also claimed that their network was
too “flat.” During the initial onsite visit, you captured the
following pertinent data to use in creation of the Penetration
Test Plan.
·
Non-stateful packet firewall separates the business’s internal
network from its DMZ.
·
All departments--including Finance, Marketing, Development,

2. and IT--connect into the same enterprise switch and are
therefore on the same LAN. Senior management (CEO, CIO,
President, etc.) and the Help Desk are not on that LAN; they are
connected via a common Ethernet hub and then to the switched
LAN.
·
All of the workstations used by employees are either Windows
98 or Windows XP. None of the workstations have service
packs or updates beyond service pack one.
·
Two (2) Web servers containing customer portals for logging in
and ordering products exist on the DMZ running Windows 2000
Server SP1, and IIS v5.
·
One (1) internal server containing Active Directory (AD)
services to authenticate users, a DB where all data for the
company is stored (i.e. HR, financial, product design, customer,
transactions). The AD server is using LM instead of NTLM.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
1.
Explain the tests you would run and the reason(s) for running
them (e.g. to support the risk assessment plan).
2.
Determine the expected results from tests and research based on
the specific informational details provided. (i.e., IIS v5,
Windows Server 2000, AD server not using NTLM)
3.
Analyze the software tools you would use for your investigation
and reasons for choosing them.

3. 4.
Describe the legal requirements and ethical issues involved.
5.
Using Visio or its open source alternative, provide a diagram of
how you would redesign this business’ network. Include a
description of your drawing.
Note
: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the
required page length.
6.
Propose your final recommendations and reporting. Explain
what risks exist and ways to either eliminate or reduce the risk.
7.
Use at least four (4) quality resources in this assignment.
Note:
Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality
resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
·
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size
12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references
must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your
professor for any additional instructions.
·
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the
student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the
date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in
the required assignment page length.

4. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this
assignment are:
·
Perform vulnerability analysis as well as external and internal
penetration testing.
·
Demonstrate the ability to describe and perform penetration
tests on communication media to include wireless networks,
VoIPs, VPNs, Bluetooth and handheld devices.
·
Use technology and information resources to research issues in
penetration testing tools and techniques.
·
Write clearly and concisely about Network Penetration Testing
topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style
conventions.
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logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing
skills, using the following rubric.
Points: 120
Term Paper: Penetration Testing
Criteria
Unacceptable
Below 60% F
Meets Minimum Expectations
60-69% D

5. Fair
70-79% C
Proficient
80-89% B
Exemplary
90-100% A
1. Explain the tests you would run and the reason(s) for running
them (e.g. to support the risk assessment plan).
Weight 10%
Did not submit or incompletely explained the tests you would
run and the reason(s) for running them (e.g. to support the risk
assessment plan).
Insufficiently explained the tests you would run and the
reason(s) for running them (e.g. to support the risk assessment
plan).
Partially explained the tests you would run and the reason(s) for
running them (e.g. to support the risk assessment plan).
Satisfactorily explained the tests you would run and the
reason(s) for running them (e.g. to support the risk assessment
plan).
Thoroughly explained the tests you would run and the reason(s)
for running them (e.g. to support the risk assessment plan).
2. Determine the expected results from tests and research based
on the specific informational details provided.
Weight: 10%
Did not submit or incompletely determined the expected results
from tests and research based on the specific informational
details provided.
Insufficiently determined the expected results from tests and
research based on the specific informational details provided.
Partially determined the expected results from tests and
research based on the specific informational details provided.
Satisfactorily determined the expected results from tests and
research based on the specific informational details provided.

6. Thoroughly determined the expected results from tests and
research based on the specific informational details provided.
3. Analyze the software tools you would use for your
investigation and reasons for choosing them.
Weight: 15%
Did not submit or incompletely analyzed the software tools you
would use for your investigation and reasons for choosing them.
Insufficiently analyzed the software tools you would use for
your investigation and reasons for choosing them.
Partially analyzed the software tools you would use for your
investigation and reasons for choosing them.
Satisfactorily analyzed the software tools you would use for
your investigation and reasons for choosing them.
Thoroughly analyzed the software tools you would use for your
investigation and reasons for choosing them.
4. Describe the legal requirements and ethical issues involved.
Weight: 15%
Did not submit or incompletely described the legal
requirements; did not submit or incompletely described ethical
issues involved.
Insufficiently described the legal requirements; insufficiently
described ethical issues involved.
Partially described the legal requirements; partially described
ethical issues involved.
Satisfactorily described the legal requirements; satisfactorily
described ethical issues involved.
Thoroughly described the legal requirements; thoroughly
described ethical issues involved.
5. Using Visio or its open source alternative, provide a diagram
of how you would redesign this business’ network. Include a
description of your drawing.
Weight: 20%
Did not submit or incompletely provided a diagram of how you
would redesign this business’ network using Visio or its open
source alternative. Did not submit or incompletely included a
description of your drawing.

7. Insufficiently provided a diagram of how you would redesign
this business’ network using Visio or its open source
alternative. Insufficiently included a description of your
drawing.
Partially provided a diagram of how you would redesign this
business’ network using Visio or its open source alternative.
Partially included a description of your drawing.
Satisfactorily provided a diagram of how you would redesign
this business’ network using Visio or its open source
alternative. Satisfactorily included a description of your
drawing.
Thoroughly provided a diagram of how you would redesign this
business’ network using Visio or its open source alternative.
Thoroughly included a description of your drawing.
6. Propose your final recommendations and reporting. Explain
what risks exist and ways to either eliminate or reduce the risk.
Weight: 15%
Did not submit or incompletely proposed your final
recommendations and reporting. Did not submit or
incompletely explained what risks exist and ways to either
eliminate or reduce the risk.
Insufficiently proposed your final recommendations and
reporting. Insufficiently explained what risks exist and ways to
either eliminate or reduce the risk.
Partially proposed your final recommendations and reporting.
Partially explained what risks exist and ways to either eliminate
or reduce the risk.
Satisfactorily proposed your final recommendations and
reporting. Satisfactorily explained what risks exist and ways to
either eliminate or reduce the risk.
Thoroughly proposed your final recommendations and
reporting. Thoroughly explained what risks exist and ways to
either eliminate or reduce the risk.
7. 3 references
Weight: 5%
No references provided

8. Does not meet the required number of references; all references
poor quality choices.
Does not meet the required number of references; some
references poor quality choices.
Meets number of required references; all references high quality
choices.
Exceeds number of required references; all references high
quality choices.
8. Clarity, writing mechanics, and formatting requirements
Weight: 10%
More than 8 errors present
7-8 errors present
5-6 errors present
3-4 errors present
0-2 errors present