Assignment: Wireless and Mobile Computing Security
Case Study
Background
Bradford Hospital is a (fictitious) hospital located in Perth, Western Australia with approximately 600 beds, 50 administration staff, and 3 employees in charge of the IT infrastructure. Employees within Bradford Hospital have been voicing their continual interest in being able to connect various portable devices such as smart phones, tablets, network storage and laptops to the network. The employees have been suggesting that by connecting these devices to the network it would allow them to manage patient data, upload records, as well as being able to review patient files while on the move.
The head administrator of the hospital has concerns regarding the security of such a proposal and has asked external consultants to prepare a series of reports on the matter. At the same time the head administrator feels that it may be an effective way to improve patient care. At this point in time, the head administrator is unaware of any other hospitals such a model and as a result would be interested in knowing other approaches in hospitals utilising similar practices.
Task
The deliverable for this case study is a presentation and report that addresses the graduate attributes of: communication skills, critical appraisal skills and ability to generate ideas. The assignment can either be completed individually or in a group of two. A group of two will be required to produce twice the amount of work as a single person.
Your task is to select one topic from modules 3 to 12 on Blackboard as shown below and email your lecturer/tutor no later than close of business 20th March 2018 with your selection any group members (if any).
Note the difficulty of topics increases as the week's progress. You should specify which of these you have covered in your writeup as well.
• Mobile Device Management
• Evaluating Mobile Device Management Systems
• Mobile Device Security Policies
• Wireless Vulnerabilities
• Mobile Application Security
• Mobile Device Forensics
• Wireless Intrusion Detection Systems/Wireless Intrusion Prevention Systems etc...
Each module has weekly lecture notes and a recording already created to introduce you to the topic and point you in the right direction. Based on the topic and the background you are to develop a presentation which will show the head administrator the positive and negative aspects of allowing employees to utilise portable computing devices at work. If for instance, you are undertaking the wireless vulnerabilities topic, you would then need to show the dangers and potential threats, how they can eventuate and at the same time mitigated.
You may also contrast this with case studies of other hospitals or medical facilties and examine the mitigation strategies that they have employed.
It is entirely up to you as to how you wish to undertake your presentation and what you wish to include. You should go beyond the scope of simply presenting what is available in the weekly lecture/audio material. You should review existing systems and examine publicly accessible case studies. You may like to undertake in-class demonstrations or activities relevant to the topic.
Both On-campus and Off-campus students will prepare a full business report of their chosen topic in relationship to the case scenario above which they will have to upload on Blackboard Off-campus students will be required to create a video/audio recording of their slides which will subsequently be shown in the lecture time slot also. Audio/video recording will need to be submitted to Blackboard at least 1 day prior to the date of the presentation.