The students assume the role of a networking intern at Richman Investments, a mid-level financial investment and consulting firm. In this assignment, the students will research malicious code attacks and select one that occurred within the last year. They must write a summary report explaining what kind of malicious attack it was, how it spread and attacked other devices, and how it was mitigated. They must also explain how they would prevent the attack from recurring on a network under their control.As they gather information for the summary report, they should consider the following:

The severity of the outbreak

The propagation methods and speed

The targets of the attack

The success rate of the attack vector

Additional complexity: for example, self-armoring and self-updating

The ways to prevent against infection in every IT infrastructure domain

The ways to prevent intrusion at every layer

he students will develop a summary report and propose a strong response to a malware infection or intrusion. They will also gauge the impact of the threat risk, and consider how to control and prevent such incidents