Assignment No. 01 Semester: Fall 2019 CS205: Information Security Total Marks: 15 Due Date
Assignment No. 01 Semester: Fall 2019 CS205: Information Security Total Marks: 15 Due Date
01 Total Marks: 15
Semester: Fall 2019
CS205: Information Security Due Date: 14/11/2019
Instructions:
Please read the following instructions carefully before submitting assignment:
You need to use MS word document to prepare and submit the assignment on VU-LMS.
It should be clear that your assignment will not get any credit if:
Objectives:
Security model
OSI security architecture
Assignment
Question No.1:
Carefully study the scenarios given below with respect to C.I.A triangle and identify the C.I.A. security
component associated with each scenario. You are required to provide your answer in table given below:
1. Student’s grade information is considered very important and it should be available only for that specific
2. Information of heart patient is stored in hospital’s database. The doctor trusts on that stored information
and then suggests medicine according to this information. Another employee who has also legal rights to
access this database, unintentionally changes this information that can misguide the patient treatment.
3. VU-LMS is not accessible due to which students are not able to submit their assignments on time.
5. Employee’s salary slip in an organization should not be visible to any other employee.
6. Product price and specification available on online shopping store is changed by unauthorized person.
7. You are replying to an email of your friend then it should be received in original form as it is sent by
you.
8. Your academic marks are posted on social media website by some unauthorized person.
10. A multinational company makes a plan for launching a new product for capturing customers in a market
1 Confidentiality
2 Integrity
3 Availability
4 Availability
5 Confidentiality
6 Integrity
7 Integrity
8 Confidentiality
9 Availability
10 Confidentiality
Question No.2:
OSI architecture was developed as an international standard to define the requirements for security and
characterizing the way to satisfy that requirements. You are required to carefully study the OSI security
architecture then identify and relate the following scenarios with security services provided by OSI. You are
required to provide your answer in table given below:
1. A person, transferring money to his friend using online banking service. Both the bank and the user
should be guaranteed in identities of each other.
2. In online banking application a user may be allowed to see his profile, but not allowed to make any
changes in his profile information.
3. A user withdraw money from his bank account, but later denied that. How the bank can handle such
situation?
4. A user wants to pay his electricity bill using online banking service but website of that bank is down in
that time.
5. A user sends a query to bank head office to know about his closing balance and he should receive same
balance amount as sent by bank authorities.
Solution:
1 Authentication
2 Access control
3 Non repudiation
4 Data confidentiality
5 Data integrity