17 Jul Individual Assignment 3 –
Course Objective: Examine hacker culture and related psychological and cultural aspects of cybersecurity from both the malicious actor and user’s perspectives.
Competencies: Critical thinking, communication skills
Each student may choose one of the following organizations (e.g., a private company or a government agency), attack, or perpetrator and should identify a significant past incident in cybercrime or cyberwarfare related to it. The student will fully discuss the specifics of the cyber incident and analyze the motivation of the threat actors/attackers. Analyze the possible motivations of those who worked to defend assets against disruption, and describe motivations of any possible third-parties that may also have been involved. The student will also suggest methods for the organization to discourage hackers or intruders with similar motives and suggest management, policy or technology controls to protect the organization against similar attacks.
Organizations, Attacks, and Perpetrators:
Home Depot
Target
Sony
Office of Personnel Management
Saudi Aramco
Turbo Tax
NASA
Operation Aurora
US Bureau of Justice Statistics
Stuxnet and Flame (US Government?)
Dupont Chemical
Boeing
Johnson & Johnson
Pfizer
4Chan
Tricare Medical
Opi Israel
Sony
News of the World
Motorola
Omega Engineering
Syrian Electronic Army
Njrat
The Jester
Blue Army
Project Chanology
The Estonian Cyberwar
Shamoon (Iran?)
Your paper should describe the type of incident and the actors: personalities, motivations, and other contributing cultural or psychological characteristics. You will find Module “Psychological Aspects of Cybersecurity” helpful with this assignment. Link your analysis to previous readings, interactive modules, and discussion topics, with appropriate citations.
At a minimum, the questions you must address are listed below:
a. What descriptive labels might apply to this type of threat/incident?
b. Regarding the threat actors:
What sort of people would go after this information?
Why would they want it?
What will/can they do with it?
How would they get it?
How would potential attackers be identified?
c. How would the organization try to discourage, or reduce the incentives that could attract possible threat actors?
d. How would the organization protect against, or reduce damaging effects due to attempted attacks?
Length 5-7 pages, due at the end of Week 8.
Prepare your paper in Word format. It should be double-spaced with one-inch margins all around. The citations and the reference list in the paper should be formatted in accordance with APA 6th edition guidelines.
Papers must include: cover page, table of contents, introduction, section headings and subheadings, conclusions, APA compliant in-text citations and list of references, and page numbers. The page count begins with the introduction and ends with the conclusions. The questions asked in the assignment should first be outlined (the outline is not included in the document), then the outline should be used to create the Table of Contents and the document sub-headings. The Introduction should briefly preview each sub-heading in the document.
Individual Assignment #3 Grading Rubic
| Criteria | Excellent A (90+) | Satisfactory B (80-89) | Needs Improvement (below 80) |
| Content (80%) | |||
| Clarity of cyber threats
(25%) |
The incident is thoroughly developed and clearly stated. | The incident is adequately developed and clearly stated. | The incident is neither adequately developed nor clearly stated. |
| Analysis of motivation
(20%) |
Analysis of actors’ motivation is thorough. Various actors (attackers, defenders, third-parties) are included. | Analysis of actors’ motivation is adequate. Motivation of attackers and defenders are included. | The analysis presented is incomplete. |
| Clarity of methods of organizational response
(25%) |
Methods organizations can use to discourage actors and similar attacks are thoroughly discussed and logical presented. | Methods organizations can use to discourage actors and similar attacks are adequately discussed and logically presented. | Methods organizations can use to discourage actors and similar attacks are not adequately discussed or logically presented. |
| Quality of documented support
(10%) |
The discussion in the paper is based on a thorough review of the literature, which is not limited to news articles, but also includes scholarly resources such as studies or reports from agencies or organizations. | The discussion in the paper is based on an adequate review of the literature. | The scope of the research presented in the paper is inadequate. Heavy reliance on reference material (e.g. Wikipedia, exam prep books, “Dummies” guides). |
| Form (20%) | |||
| Organization
(10%) |
The Table of Contents (TOC) and the document sub-headings reflect a careful outline of the questions asked in the assignment. The content is well organized with clear transitions among major subtopics. | The content is generally well organized with some improvement possible in transitions among subtopics. | The organization of the content is confusing without clear transitions among subtopics. |
| Writing style
(5%) |
The introduction is written to give a preview of each sub-heading topic. Graduate-level writing is reflected throughout the paper, including accurate spelling, punctuation, grammar, and sentence structure. | Writing is acceptable, with a few errors in spelling, punctuation, grammar, and/or sentence structure. | Writing does not meet graduate standards. Unacceptable number of errors in spelling, punctuation, grammar and/or sentence structure. |
| Use of proper APA formatting
(5%) |
In-text citations are in proper APA format and all sources are identified in the reference list and cited in proper APA format. | Minor errors in citation identification and/or APA format. | Unacceptable number of errors in citation identification and/or APA format. |
| Your Grade: | |||
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