Advanced Network Security - Report-1

The Advanced Network Security Final Report for the School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences requires students to investigate network security and privacy issues on a chosen topic within cybersecurity. The report must include an introduction, literature review, analysis of advancements, recommendations for safeguarding digital infrastructure, a conclusion, and references, with a total word count of approximately 5000 words. The submission deadline is set for May 9, 2025, and the assessment criteria outline specific chapters and their corresponding marks.

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School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences Session 2024/2025

Advanced Network Security Final Report

Module Code: COMP11076

Assessment: Coursework 2
Handed Out: 07/04/2025
Due Date: 09/05/2025

This report aims to inves/gate network security and privacy issues of any topic of your choice. For
this report, you can choose any topic within the scope of cybersecurity in general or more speciﬁcally
network security. Your report must analyse vulnerabili/es and threats in digital infrastructure and
present recent advancements to safeguard the underlying digital infrastructure. It must focus on the
security and privacy of users, services, service providers, and/or speciﬁc components of digital
infrastructure.

In your report you MUST include the following:

• Introduc/on to the topic along with your mo/va/on to select it.

• Literature review: You can use research papers, white papers, technical reports, and online
ar/cles for your literature review.
• Cyber and network security advancements: Carefully analyse your literature review and
highlight important facts and ﬁndings.
• Recommenda/ons for safeguarding digital infrastructure: Write using the knowledge you have
gained during the lectures and future reading about the improvements that can be made to
ensure protec/on from modern-day cyberaGacks.

• Your recommenda/ons can focus either on the whole digital infrastructure or its
speciﬁc comments and stakeholders i.e., end user, service provider, regulator etc.

• You can discuss systems, frameworks, protocols, tools, best prac/ces, government
regula/ons etc.
• Conclusion
• List of references

Deliverable: A project report

For s/mula/ng ideas, you can think along the lines of the following topics:

• Cybersecurity issues with content delivery networks – ranging from simple ﬁle sharing to app
stores.
• Vulnerabili/es analysis of smart ci/es, considering smart city inhabitants, service providers and
smart city infrastructure as stakeholders.
School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences Session 2024/2025
• Relevance of exis/ng network security prac/ces in the quantum compu/ng era.
• Applica/on of ML/AI for securing cri/cal networks.
• Network security for IoT services or devices or ecosystem as a whole.
• Network security and privacy implica/ons of wearable compu/ng.
• Analysis of cybersecurity for eVo/ng methodologies and frameworks.
• Security in the era of big data with a par/cular focus on big data frameworks.
• Applica/on of encryp/on in network genera/on constraints networks.
• Public cloud compu/ng from a concerned subscriber point of view.
• Blockchain i.e., Ethereum, HyperLedger etc.
• Any topic of your own choice inspired by your current role or research interests.

Assessment Criteria (Report must have the following chapters)

SecEon Marks
Introduc/on 5
Literature review 10
Cyber and network security advancements 10
Recommenda/ons for safeguarding digital infrastructure 15
Conclusion 8
References 2
Presenta/on in Week 6 10