SECENG module Seminar 5 Group Project 1. The topic of this week’s project is related to next week’s topic. Read the article ‘Personal Firewalls’ at http://www.firewallguide.com/software.htm. Choose...

SECENG module Seminar 5 Group Project 1. The topic of this week’s project is related to next week’s topic. Read the article ‘Personal Firewalls’ at http://www.firewallguide.com/software.htm. Choose one of the firewalls discussed in the article or some other firewalls that you know already or Microsoft XP Service Package 2 if you use Windows XP, and install it on your computer. This project should be finished in this week. After you install the personal firewall we can test it using an invited attack by linking to the following site: http://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2. Briefly report what you have done and what are your findings? Also briefly report what personal firewalls can do and what they cannot do to protect your personal computers. Present one potential benefit that you get from installing a personal firewall (in particular, something that you cannot do without it). In your report, you may also briefly discuss antivirus software, anti-spyware software and their relationship to personal firewalls. This week’s project is mostly finished by each student separately. But if you meet some problems or if you have some ideas, feel free to discuss with you colleagues in your project folder. 2. (Not required, if you have not done so, please install one to your computer since we are trying to be secure) Install an anti-virus software program on your computer and an anti spyware package (e.g., spybot) on your computer. You can choose one free package from http://www.freebyte.com/antivirus/, http://www.grisoft.com/html/us_index.html, or http://www.webattack.com/Freeware/security/fwvirus.shtml, or use some commercial one if you have them installed on your computer already. 3. (Optional also): This project is not mandatory and your work on this project will not be included in your grade. We will discuss network security in Week 6. As a preparation, you could download the Intrusion Detection Tools snort from http://www.snort.org/ and install it on your computer (there are both versions for UNIX and MS Windows). Right now, perhaps you do not want to write a rule set for intrusion detection, but it will helpful for you to run the snort in observation mode to check what is happening on your network card. Also try to install the penetration test tool nessus from http://www.nessus.org/. Note that in order for nessus to work, you need to install the server nessusd on some UNIX (e.g. Linux) machine. If you have no access to UNIX system, you could ignore this part. Discuss your findings in the project folder.