Throughout this course, you will be developing a framework to bring focus to areas of concern for the enterprise to take action toward implementing best practices for network security.

The weekly Individual Project assignments will culminate in the final Key Assignment. Each weekly assignment will build upon the work and knowledge of previous weeks.

You will create 1 single document that contains all of the weekly assignments in separate sections, culminating with the final submission.

Additional information and the deliverables for each Individual Project will be provided in the assignment description for this project. You are responsible for adding each of these ongoing Individual Project assignments into your Key Assignment document.

The Network Architecture Security Plan Proposal will consist of the following deliverables:

Section 1: Introduction

Section 2: Network Architecture

Section 3: Managing and Protecting Data

Section 4: Risk Assessment

Section 5: Digital Evidence Controls, Computer Forensic Analysis, and Recovering Files

Section 6: Recommendations for Best Practices

The following is the outline for the document shell:

Use Word

Title Page

Course number and name

Project name

Student name

Date

Table of Contents (TOC)

Use an autogenerated TOC.

This should be on a separate page.

Be sure to update the fields of the TOC so it is up-to-date before submitting your project.

Section Headings (create each heading on a new page with TBD as content except for sections listed under New Content below)

Introduction

Network Architecture

Managing and Protecting Data

Risk Assessment

Digital Evidence Controls, Computer Forensic Analysis, and Recovering Files

Disaster Recover and Business Continuity Policies

Training Plan

Recommendations for Best Practices

The project deliverables for Week 1 will include the completion of 2 sections.

Section 1: Introduction

You are a system administrator, and you have been selected to develop a Network Architecture Security Plan Proposal for an enterprise or organization with which you are familiar or for a fictitious enterprise.

The first step will be to select an enterprise or organization as the target for your Network Architecture Security Plan Proposal. This project will be used as the basis for each of the assignments throughout the course and should conform to the following guidelines:

The selected enterprise should be large enough to reflect the need to consider the adoption of the Network Architecture Security Plan and best practices for network security.

You should be familiar enough with the organization to allow focus on its network architecture.

Select an enterprise that fits these requirements, and address the following:

Describe the organization, including a company size, a company location, and a list of products or services.

Include the rationale for your choice.

Section 2: Network Architecture

Complete the following:

Describe the network architecture for this organization.

Identify physical structures, major types of hardware used to connect computers and networks together, and the way data travels through the network.

Include a diagram to help support your description of the network architecture.