CYB $310$

$6-1$Project One Submission: Network Evaluation Report

Overview

How do you become good at any skill? You practice it over and over until it becomes second nature. Troubleshooting computer and network problems is a skill that evolves over your career. As you practice identifying and troubleshooting network issues, you will become really good at finding problems and developing solutions. These skills are a critical component of systems thinking and the adversarial mindset.

Cybersecurity analysts and network engineers work side by side to build the strongest network defense possible. As a security analyst, you might be asked to help with network protection from time to time. Your ability to understand and troubleshoot emerging problems is key to protecting a system.

For this project, you will assume the role of a job candidate. As part of the interview process, you are asked to troubleshoot hypothetical issues in a network. You will develop a network evaluation report that documents your findings for the interviewers.

Scenario

You are interviewing for a cybersecurity analyst position. As part of the interview process, the company tests all candidates' $$troubleshooting capabilities. The company provides you with a GNS$3$virtual network and asks you to demonstrate your troubleshooting skills.

Select two challenges from the list below and provide recommendations for how you would address them.

Challenges:

$1.$There are no password policy best practices in use, and the users in the network have passwords that never expire.

$2.$Users in individual departments can access and log into computers in other departments within the network.

Prompt

Network Evaluation Report

$1.$Challenge One

A$.$Identify the potential cause of the selected challenge.

B$.$Explain your approach to resolving the challenge. Justify your response.

$2.$Challenge Two

A$.$Identify the potential cause of the selected challenge.

B$.$Explain your approach to resolving the challenge. Justify your response.