Assignment 1: write an ORIGINAL brief essay of 300 words or more describing the history and background of OWASP.Describe the vulnerabilities breifly? Assignment 2: Write an overview for Common Weakness Enumeration and their scoring system. Pick one of the common weaknesses identified and describe it. Assignment 3: Topic: Then pick and three passwords: one not secure, one acceptable, and one very secure. Then write a brief description of the passwords you have chosen, indicating why they are secure or not secure. Assignment 4: An IT Security consultant has made three primary recommendations regarding passwords: Prohibit guessable passwords 1. such as common names, real words, numbers only 2. require special characters and a mix of caps, lower case and numbers in passwords 3. Reauthenticate before changing passwords 4. user must enter old pw before creating new one 5. Make authenticators unforgeable 6. do not allow email or user ID as password Using WORD, write a brief paper of 200-300 words explaining each of these security recommendations. Do you agree or disagree with these recommendations. Would you change, add or delete any of these? Add additional criteria as you see necesarry. Assignment 5: Do a bit of research on JSON and AJAX. How do they relate to the the Same-Origin policy? Assignment 6: Use the Web to search for methods to prevent XSS attacks. Write a brief description of more than one method. Use your own words and supply references. Assignment 7: Topic: The Dangers of Detailed Errors Validating Input Single Account Security SQL Injection in Stored Procedures Insecure Direct Object References You are the web master of a college website. You share a server with other school departments such as accounting and HR. Based on this chapter, create at least five security-related rules for staff members who are adding web pages being added to your site. Include a justification and explanation for each rule. Rules should relate to college, staff and student, and system information security. Assignment 8: Do a bit if research into File Inclusion Vulnerability. What is it? Why is is dangerous? What is the difference of low and remote inclusion? What methods can me employed to prevent a security breach? What programming languages are vulnerable to this type of attack. Assignment 9: Topic: Threat Modeling Threat Assessment You are the web master for the Republican Party National Committee. Prepare a risk assessment analysis for your website. Some questions to consider: Who is likely to attack your site? When are attacks likely to occur? What sort of attacks might take place? How can you best minimize attacks and protect the integrity of your site? Assignment 10: Do a bit of research on penetration testing techniques. Investigate and document the following Five network penetration testing techniques Advantages and disadvantages of each One notable social engineering test Possible negative implications of penetration tesing. .

1. Assignment 1:
write an ORIGINAL brief essay of 300 words or more
describing the history and background of OWASP.Describe the
vulnerabilities breifly?
Assignment 2:
Write an overview for Common Weakness Enumeration and
their scoring system. Pick one of the common weaknesses
identified and describe it.
Assignment 3:
Topic:
Then pick and three passwords: one not secure, one acceptable,
and one very secure. Then write a brief description of the
passwords you have chosen,
indicating why they are secure or not secure.
Assignment 4:
An IT Security consultant has made three primary
recommendations regarding passwords:
Prohibit guessable passwords
1. such as common names, real words, numbers only
2. require special characters and a mix of caps, lower case and
numbers in passwords
3. Reauthenticate before changing passwords
4. user must enter old pw before creating new one
5. Make authenticators unforgeable
6. do not allow email or user ID as password
Using WORD, write a brief paper of 200-300 words explaining
each of these security recommendations. Do you agree or
disagree with these recommendations. Would you change, add
or delete any of these?
Add additional criteria as you see necesarry.
Assignment 5:

2. Do a bit of research on JSON and AJAX.
How do they relate to the the Same-Origin policy?
Assignment 6:
Use the Web to search for methods to prevent XSS attacks.
Write a brief description of more than one method.
Use your own words and supply references.
Assignment 7:
Topic:
The Dangers of Detailed Errors
Validating Input
Single Account Security
SQL Injection in Stored Procedures
Insecure Direct Object References
You are the web master of a college website. You share a server
with other school departments such as accounting and HR.
Based on this chapter, create at least five security-related rules
for staff members who are adding web pages being added to
your site.
Include a justification and explanation for each rule. Rules
should relate to college, staff and student, and system
information security.
Assignment 8:
Do a bit if research into File Inclusion Vulnerability.
What is it?
Why is is dangerous?
What is the difference of low and remote inclusion?
What methods can me employed to prevent a security breach?
What programming languages are vulnerable to this type of
attack.
Assignment 9:
Topic:
Threat Modeling
Threat Assessment
You are the web master for the Republican Party National

3. Committee. Prepare a risk assessment analysis for your website.
Some questions to consider:
Who is likely to attack your site?
When are attacks likely to occur?
What sort of attacks might take place?
How can you best minimize attacks and protect the integrity of
your site?
Assignment 10:
Do a bit of research on penetration testing techniques.
Investigate and document the following
Five network penetration testing techniques
Advantages and disadvantages of each
One notable social engineering test
Possible negative implications of penetration tesing.
Assignment 11:
Do some research on Threat Response software. Find one
particular software package to investigate.
What does the software do?
What are it's major features?
What kind of training is required?
How much does the software cost?
Assignment 12:
Research the Dark Web.
Write a brief paper on the following topics: What is the Dark
Web? How is it accessed? How is it used by criminals? How can
it be used in a positive way?
How can be used by law enforcement and the intelligence
services. How can be used by private individuals.
Assignment 13:
Need 500- 600 words on Authentication and Authorization
Powerpoint presentation upto 15 slides on Authentication and
Authorization.

4. Need atleast 300 words for all assignments except the
Assignment 13.
Investigating Happiness at College
SNAPSHOT:
TOPIC Either a specific group related to college or a
factor within
college life that possibly affects a specified group of
college
students or students in general.
PITCH Present your topic and your research question
to the class—
shark tank! Sound too scary? How about guppy tank
?).
Tentative due date: 2/5 & 2/7
ESSAY 1 The prospectus and the annotated
bibliography.
Tentative due date: 2/21
ESSAY 2 Change in your topic or conducting your
own study
Tentative due date: 3/16

5. ESSAY 3 Argument about a specific controversy
within your topic
Tentative due date: 4/6
ESSAY 4 Answers and argues your refined research
question about the
importance of your topic.
Tentative due date: 4/24
♥ Rough drafts with reflections about what is working
and not working and
WHY will be required for the prospectus and essays
2 and 3. The work
on the rough draft and the reflections will count
toward your essay grade.
♥ Final reflections submitted the class period after you
submit your final
draft for essays 2-4 will also count as part of your
essay grade.
♥ You will upload your drafts on Moodle. You will
be asked to identify the
portions of the sources you used and submit hard
copies of your sources
in a folder or files of your sources online.
Investigating Happiness at College:
Some questions that will help you form your own
research

6. questions:
● Is happiness a necessity or a perk in college life?
● What do the expectations of happiness and the
pursuit of
happiness reveal about a specific college group,
college
students in general, or another college-related group?
● Considering both on-campus factors and off-campus
factors
(at least at first), what most influences your group’s
happiness (or unhappiness)?
● Is there one major factor (on campus or off
campus) you
would want to investigate that affects students’
happiness?
● How do the expectations about happiness that
society has in
general or a certain specific segment of society (for
instance, parents) has, relate to college or college
students?
● How much do preconceived notions and expectations
about
college life affect student happiness?
● Hard work is hard to enjoy. So how do students
balance that
hard work with the other joys of life?
This semester you will be investigating happiness and

7. some aspect of college life. You will either pick
some SPECIFIC GROUP you are interested in
studying. Here are some examples of a SPECIFIC
GROUP : first-year athletes (or better: freshman
football redshirts), sorority members, RAs, members of
religious groups, art students, students who work on
campus, international students (or better: Puerto
Rican college students), cafeteria workers, and so
forth.
OR you will investigate a certain aspect of college
life that FACTORS into either the overall college
students’ happiness or some segment of college
students’ happiness. Here are some examples of
FACTORS : technology, parking, textbooks, teaching
style, major selection, on-campus jobs, work,
parental pressure, procrastination, and so forth—though
I would suggest tying these to a specific group,
such as first-year students or early admission students,
I won’t require it.
Just note : it is better to start too specifically on a
narrow GROUP or FACTOR ; then, if the need
arises,
you can broaden the GROUP or FACTOR . You
might start your investigation with Puerto Rican
students, but find you have to expand it to students
from US territories, then students whose first
language is Spanish, and so forth.
Note that it is usually more interesting to study a
group that you are not a member of or that you
want to

8. understand better; however, this is not a requirement.
MOST IMPORTANTLY : FOLLOW WHAT
YOU ARE MOST INTERESTED IN—BEING
INTERESTED IN YOUR TOPIC MAKES A HUGE
DIFFERENCE FOR HOW YOUR SEMESTER GOES!
ENGLISH 102: RESEARCH ASSIGNMENTS
● The Pitch
● Prospectus & Annotated Bibliography Essay 1
● Essays 2 & 3
● Essay 4
THE PITCH (tentative due date 2/5 & 2/7)
You will make a minute-long pitch in class (each
class decided to do this method). You will justify
your
planned topic and why you want to research it. You
will center the pitch around your research question.
By the time you submit your pitch, you will have
familiarized yourself with preliminary research about
your topic to get a general view of it and its
viability. What is the question about your topic that
you
want an answer to this semester? What have you
found in your preliminary research about it? Why is
it
valuable to research and study this specific topic?
Think Shark Tank--or how about guppy tank .
PROSPECTUS & ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ESSAY
1 (tentative due date 2/21)

9. 1) In the Prospectus (500-750 words/MLA format),
you will explain your research topic for the semester
and what you plan to do for each essay. The
prospectus is more informal and you can use “I” in
it; it
won’t include sources because you should be writing
it from your general knowledge of the topic
without referring to specific sources. See pages 215-
18 in C&RG and my guidelines below. Note that
this is not just something you can write from the
top of your head. This takes a lot of legwork and
preliminary thinking, discussing, and research to be
sure it is a viable topic with viable mini-topics for
essays 2 and 3.
2) The annotated bibliography is a list of sources
that will serve as the foundation for your research
this
semester. It is a list of at least 10 sources (see
the specific requirements below) in MLA Works Cited
style, but in addition to the source information, you
provide information about the sources such as author
information and context, the type of source it is, a
summary of the source, quick evaluation, specific
sections that are of interest, your reactions to it,
and how you might use this in your essays this
semester.
See the specific directions in C&RG 219-220 about
multi-source annotated bibs and my example that is
linked in the assignment when we did our first

10. annotated bib entry. Please note, that the summary of
the
source must be your own summary—you cannot just
use the abstract that comes with the article!
Plagiarism rules apply! In each entry think: context ,
main point, summary, evaluation, and reflection
about how it might work into your essays this
semester.
The bibliography must contain the following types of
sources, but you are welcome and encouraged to
have more:
● at least 4 scholarly secondary sources (from
academic journals)
● at least 1 other secondary source (reliable but not
necessarily scholarly)
● at least 2 nonfiction primary sources
● at least 1 creative primary source
● the remaining sources should be reliable and
appropriate for academic essays.
WHAT TO INCLUDE IN YOUR PROSPECTUS
Introduction
See the section about the prospectus in the
Composition and Rhetoric Guide for more specific
help.
Describe your group or the factor you are
investigating and the connection to happiness. Why
you chose this group or factor and what about it
interests you. Say what you hope to argue/prove
OR, best, present your research question. You might
find writing and reviewing this paragraph
helps you with your pitch.

11. Each Body section 1-3 should develop most of the
following areas:
What you hope to discover/prove in this essay or
your limited research question geared to this
essay and any necessary explanation that will help
your audience. What opposition might say
(and perhaps how you might persuade them). What
specific categories of sources you might
look for and what sources do you already plan to
use. What primary sources you might use to
illustrate your point. What troubles you anticipate
having.
Body Section 1 (this corresponds to Essay 2-- make
sure you review the prompt for this essay below
before you tackle this !). For this essay you’ll have
two choices:
Option 1: explain a significant change in the group
or factor related to happiness and what you might
argue about it.
Option 2: You’ll do your own study on your
topic, and then in an essay modeled off a scholarly
research article, you will report what previous
scholars have said, how you conducted your study,
your findings from your own field research, and your
conclusions based on your research.
*For both options, you’ll discuss what type of field

12. study you are planning to conduct to gather
first-hand information and why you plan to use that
type.
Body Section Two (this corresponds to Essay 3--make
sure you review the prompt for this essay below!)
identifies and explains a controversial issue within
your topic and how you will tackle the argument.
Body Section Three (this corresponds to Essay 4--
make sure you review the prompt for this essay
below!)
explain why your research is important to pursue
and what impacts it might reveal. This essay will
try
to answer in an argument your main research
question for the semester. Also consider why your
audience should care about the group/factor you
focused on and what is the impact of your
findings on the group itself, students, colleges, and
possibly communities? You may also end up
discussing some of the implications for the future.
Conclusion
Why it is worth studying? Why is it important to
study? Overall opposition/what different sides will
say? Return to your thesis or research question and
consider what you think you’ll discover and
why.

13. Your annotated bibliography will then follow on a
new page but will be submitted in the same file as
the
prospectus.
ESSAYS 2-3, OVERALL REQUIREMENTS
● Each essay must make a well-supported argument
with well-integrated sources and be
based on the assigned prompts below. To get a
passing grade: you must support an
arguable thesis based on your own thoughts about
your topic and the sources you have
read and the research you have conducted; each must
also be a 1,000-1,300 words, have 5-6
sources minimum (see the individual requirements for
each essay) that are cited in the style
required for each essay. See the syllabus about the
other requirements as far as rough
draft, final draft, and revision submissions.
● Sources must be well-integrated in the text of the
essay with the use of direct quotation,
summary, and paraphrase as well as in-text citations.
A Works Cited must be included, and
though it is the last page of your essay it does
not count as part of the word requirement!
● You will upload your drafts on Moodle.
● You will be asked to identify the portions of the
sources you used and submit hard copies of
your sources in a folder or files of your sources
online.

14. ● Be sure to review the rubrics and checklist in
The Composition and Rhetoric Guide as you
draft and revise!
ESSAY 2: ARGUMENT/1,000 WORDS/6 INTEGRATED
SOURCES/MLA/WORKS CITED
(tentative due date 3/16)
Option 1: Argue a significant change in the group
or factor related to happiness.
Option 2: You’ll do your own study on your
topic, and then in an essay modeled off a scholarly
research article, you will report what previous
scholars have said, how you conducted your study,
your findings from your own field research, and your
conclusions based on your research.
Things to consider if you are writing about change:
Have things always been this way? If not, what
sparked a change? What caused the problem/issue to
begin or become significant? What kind of impact
did the significant change have on members of your
selected group or on the impression of the factor
you are focused on? How do current college students
reflect/or not reflect this change?
If you are going to conduct your own study,
you’ll figure out the best way to try to collect

15. information
about the group or factor, how you’ll conduct your
study, how you plan to collect information from the
subjects you are studying. You’ll also consider what
other researchers have found as you figure this all
out. Finally, you’ll make some conclusions about your
findings.
Required minimum source guidelines:
● at least 1 scholarly secondary source from an
academic journal
● at least 1 secondary nonfiction book source (does
not need to be scholarly)
● at least 1 field research primary source that you
conducted yourself.
● at least 1 primary nonfiction source or at least 1
creative media primary
source (try to have both of these because you’ll be
more likely to meet the
final essay 4 required sources)
● a reliable source of any type (student’s choice) that
is appropriate for an
academic audience and purpose
ESSAY 3: ARGUMENT/1,000 WORDS/5 INTEGRATED
SOURCES/MLA & APA/WORKS
CITED & REFERENCES
(tentative due date 4/6)
For the third research essay, you will make a formal
argument regarding a controversial issue within

16. your topic having to do with the group or factor
you have been studying this semester. This will be
an
academic essay, but if you wish you could gear
your argument to your particular group or college
students in general. So for instance, if you are
studying how parents affect college student happiness,
you might choose to write to an audience of college
students to convince them of something about their
parents OR you might write to an audience of
parents to try to convince them of something about
their
college students. If you don’t want to aim toward a
specific audience, you’ll be writing to a general
audience.
Required minimum source guidelines:
Three scholarly secondary sources
Two primary
ESSAY 4: ARGUMENT/2,000 WORDS/MUST BE
SUBMITTED TO MOODLE/10
SOURCES/WORKS CITED
(tentative due date 4/24)
All of the same submission standards for Essays 2-3
listed above apply to this essay except the word
count and number of sources: 2000 words and a
minimum of 10 sources as listed below.
This essay is the culmination of all your work this
semester. Based on what you have learned this

17. semester, you will argue the role of happiness in
your group or how it relates to the factor you’ve
chosen. Can happiness factor into student success?
What is student success: social? academic?
self-confidence? resiliency? a good job? a proud
family? Should students expect to be happy most of
the
time in college? Alternatively, do students understand
that hard work and tough choices may lead to
greater happiness later? Should colleges (including
students) do more to promote happiness and
well-being? Should students care more about their own
foundational happiness? What are the
implications for the future? What needs to be studied
more?
You will be using parts of your other essays to
complete this one, BUT this should feel like a new
essay
and not just a copy and paste job! You most likely
have to do some new research to support your
thesis.
Required minimum source guidelines:
Seven scholarly (at least three academic journals)
Three primary (at least one creative source)
See my syllabus about what to do if Essay 1
doesn’t go well & revising Essays 2, & 3 for a
new grade
and the required procedure and last day of
submission for doing this. If you are unhappy with
your
grade, you should come to see me immediately and
use the writing center to get help. There is a

18. portfolio review option as well if you have made
improvements over the semester—see the explanation
in the Composition and Rhetoric Guide . Please ask
for help if you are feeling stuck!
REFLECTION PORTION OF YOUR ESSAY GRADE
You will be asked to submit a rough draft with a
detailed description of what you think is working
and not working and why. Failure to reflect in
depth will lower your essay grade and I will not
give
feedback on any essay that does not include this
detailed reflection. This draft and your reflections on
it
may count toward your overall grade on that essay.
When you finish a final draft of essays 2, 3, and
4, on the next class day, you will submit a
reflection
that’s at least three paragraphs that contain the
following:
♥ Paragraph 1: You will reflect on what’s working
and not working on the essay and WHY this is
and assign a letter grade to your essay that you
believe would be fair based on the final product
(not necessarily the effort you put into it)—you can
use the self-analysis rubric to guide you.
♥ Paragraph 2: You’ll discuss the decisions you made
during the writing of the essay, both on the
page and in how you allotted time and effort. So

19. you might discuss why you tried an informal
but catchy introduction and your decision to have a
two-paragraph conclusion with sources cited
in it, and then discuss that you really thought a lot
about writing the essay for the whole week but
when it came down to it you started to work on
the final draft at 9PM before it was due and you
ran out of time and energy.
♥ Paragraph 3: You’ll reflect on what you are
learning about writing and yourself as a writer.
Please be extra careful to follow my submission
instructions for drafts and final drafts.
1
Humor is a Weapon That Keeps College Students Happy
Humor is the act of making some funny jokes to make people
laugh. When a person smiles, even if they were angry about
something, they will tend to forget it. For college students who
are angry over some issues, I find laughter to be the best
weapon for them to forget their anger. For example, athletic
students may come from a competition where they did not win.
It makes them gloomy because of the thought. Therefore, humor
can be the best medicine for them.
Humor has been difficult to analyze over time. If a joke is
mentioned and people do not laugh, then the joker has to
explain it, which makes it less of a joke and more of an
elaboration. Hence, people will not laugh as they were supposed

20. to. Humor is a social phenomenon that is enjoyable and pleasant
when enjoyed by a group of people. For example, when
watching something funny alone, one cannot laugh as much as
they would when with a group of people. Thus, the question of
interest is, can laughter defuse anger in college students and
bring happiness? The problem is crucial because it helps in the
understanding of how humor can get rid of anger. The college
athletic team might disagree with the thesis because they feel
like the anger they have can only disappear with time and not
with the help of humor.
Most people do not believe that humor can defuse anger and
bring happiness, but research has been done on the field and
found that laughter is indeed a weapon. Satisfaction is not only
shown by laughter, but also with smiles and grins. Humor is a
form of communication where the person experiencing the
humor passes it on to others for them to laugh. Thus, for it to
work, the audience must be a group of many people.
Humor is vital in keeping college students happy because they
will tend to make a joke out of every bad situation. For
instance, if the athletic students are a bit in a competition, they
can make fun of the moments they experienced, and no one will
be angry about the experience. Staying as a group is also
important because one will not find someone to laugh with if
they are alone. Also, people grow stronger and healthier when
they laugh because they will not have time to think of bad
moments that can stress them.
Overall, to make humor essential tools to release anxiousness
and stresses for college students, humor should be
understandable. For one to laugh when humor is presented, they
must first be able to understand what is said. So, humor should
be composed using understandable words for every individual in
a group to interpret it and laugh. Thus, laughter is a weapon and
a form of communication that is important in a college setup.