Project

Your case study should be a qualitative description of an attack, vulnerability or defensive technique. This should include sufficient background and context so that an undergraduate student taking this course will be able to understand your topic if they are not already familiar with it. That is, you do not need to assume that your audience requires background on basic computer security concepts such as security policies vs mechanisms, digital signatures, access control mechanisms, etc.

In addition to the expectations for undergraduate students’ case studies, graduate students must also demonstrate, explore or evaluate the subject of their report. For example, if you are writing about a defensive technique, you might evaluate its performance cost for different workloads. If you are describing an attack, you might demonstrate a synthetic version of the attack and show how it could have been stopped.