Nearing the end

I am finally approaching the end of my BIT in Security with WGU. A requirement for graduation is the creation of a project, writing the proposal(s), completing the project and then writing a capstone project result paper. My original idea was to do an analysis of passwords chosen for a specific website given. By that, I mean, people typically use certain passwords determined by the actual URL. Unfortunately, after registering to begin my capstone, I found out this is not the type of work they are looking for. So I had to give it another weeks thought and came up with the following, which is my submission for my project. This is just the original submission, and approval, not the actual project proposal or actually having done the project.

WGU Tech Writing Project – Topic Proposal Outline

ANALYSIS:

Project Topic -  Deploy a Intrustion Detection and Prevention System (IDS/IPS) from a virtual server environment.

Problem Statement or Project Purpose – Currently Business X has no formal way of monitoring network traffic for local and remote malicious attacks. The purpose of this  project will be to deploy Suricata on current virtual server setup.

DESIGN and DEVELOPMENT:

Project  Scope

a.       Goals and Objectives

The goal at the end of this project is to have Suricata deployed and actively monitoring the network for malicious activity. Upon completion, the product will be deployed using current resources, be easily managed by current staff with no additional demand on resources or current staff man hours.

b.      Project Outcomes and Deliverables

The outcome of this will be fully functional Suricata IDS/IPS deployment on existing hardware with monitoring enabled and traffic being filtered and watched for malicious activity. Continuous use of this will consist of current information security staff performing daily monitoring and a weekly reports of any suspicious activity and providing timely updates to the product.

c.       Projected Project End Date

Current projected timely is completion of project no later than July 15^th 2015

IMPLEMENTATION and EVALUATION:

Describe how you will approach the execution of your project –

The execution of this project will consist of creating a virtual server to run Suricata on along with a virtual test network environment to confirm functionality and performance  before deploying on a production network.