Assignment on VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK

Purpose of the assessment (with ULO Mapping)	The purpose of this assignment is to report on important VPN security design characteristics and functions. The report must be specific to the given diagram, use appropriate examples and detail VPN topologies and configurations.
Word limit	2000

Submission Guidelines	The assignment must be in MS Word format, 1.5 spacing, 11-pt Calibri (Body) font and 2 cm margins on all four sides of your page with appropriate section headings. Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report, and listed appropriately at the end in a reference list using IEEE referencing style.

Assignment Description

STARNET is a company that has two sites (Site A and Site B) that are located in Melbourne and Sydney, needs to communicate between the two sites and exchange the data securely.

As indicated in the figure below, the corporate servers and other resources are shared in both sites. Virtual Private Network (VPN) can be a potential solution to access resources from corporate desktops at both sites to the other site’s corporate servers.

Assignment on VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK 1

As there are number of ways or VPN types to connect the two sites such as IPsec, etc., you are required to choose a suitable type of VPN to implement in this scenario.

Propose and justify VPN implementation plan to connect Site A and Site B together. The implementation plan must ensure that local area networks at both sites are accessible to each other.

Assume suitable IP addresses for both sites (both LANs) and for the WAN connection between routers R1 and R2.

Your report should address the following:

A table showing all the interfaces at every site (Internal private IP interface and external public IP interface). (10 marks)
What type of VPN is chosen to implement? And why you have chosen this type of VPN?
1. marks)
Explain the difference between Site to Site and Remote Access VPN, and how can we benefit from both in our scenario. (10 marks)
What are the security features it can provide to protect data? (10 marks)
In case of using IPSec, What are the 3 protocols used in that case? Explain your answer.
1. marks)
Explain in details the advantages and disadvantages brought by the VPN to the network.
1. marks)

Marking criteria:

Example of marking criteria is shown in following table. Marks are allocated as follows:

Marking criteria:

Marks are allocated as indicated for each question, taking the following aspects into account:

Aspects	Description	Marks
Identification and Analysis and description	Correctly identifying, appropriateness, discussion	2
Explanation/justification	Description and justification	4
Presentation and diagrams	Structure, presentation, formatting, writing	2
Reference style	Follow IEEE reference style	2
	Total (per question)	10