Scenario You are a consultant at one of the Big 4 consulting firms. You have been recently assigned your first new client and you need to provide them services to help secure their network. A short time ago their network was breached, and they would like your assistance on ensuring this does not happen again. They have provided a network diagram of their current network which you can use in your analysis. You must provide a report to the Chief Information Security Officer of your recommendations to combat the current trend of security threats and the strategies that may assist them to combat them.

Task 1: Network Security Solutions The client would like you to provide them with a brief report of what you believe is the greatest threats to their organisation, why you think that and what they can do to combat this. For this task you must consider some suitable network security solutions for the network and justify the selection. Advise how each option you suggest provides an improvement to the security and how it will mitigate the threat. Provide any references or statistics to support your analysis.

Task 2: Network vulnerability scanning Part 1 Provide a detailed solution of what vulnerability analysis methods you recommend the customer to complete based on their network and advise why those are appropriate. Part 2 a vulnerability scan on the breached server that has been provided. Provide a copy of the OpenVAS report (screenshot or PDF) with the results for the server. Determine the possible server that had the breach and what you believe was the attack vector. Explain why you think that was the attack vector and provide any references or statistics to support your analysis.