Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing

This week’s topics

Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing

1. Unpacking the assignment brief and criteria
2. Finding and evaluating sources
3. Planning and referencing

What you will be able to do

• 1.1 Identify the different kinds of malware.
• 1.2 Describe the different kinds of malware.
• 1.3 Analyse how malware can infect systems and spread across networks.
• 1.4 Evaluate the motives for the creation of malware.
• 2.1 Explain the techniques used to identify malware.
• 2.2 Explain the characteristics of packed executables.
• 2.3 Critically analyse the challenges of detecting and analysing malware.
• 2.4 Evaluate the most effective methods of detecting malware.
• 3.1 Explain the principles of malware analysis.
• 3.2 Explain the importance of sandboxing to analyse malware behaviour.
• 3.3 Implement malware analysis tools to perform static and dynamic analysis of suspicious executables.
• 3.4 Use tools to perform reverse engineering of malware.
• 4.1 Describe the most common techniques used to protect systems from malware infections.
• 4.2 Use recovery tools and techniques to restore systems compromised by malware.
• 4.3 Critically analyse the effectiveness of response strategies in real-world case studies.
• 4.4 Evaluate different methods of containing the spread of malware across networks of computers.

Activity

Plan the unit assignment against every criterion; source and reference the evidence.

Study materials