Your manager specified that all information transferred between the sales team in the field and the organizational servers must be protected against...

Your manager specified that all information transferred between the sales team in the field and the organizational servers must be protected against snooping. The manager also wants the secured reporting site to be available only through the organization's private network so that an outsourced network-based intrusion detection system (NIDS) service can log all connections.

Tasks

You need to recommend a network design and identify hardening strategies intended to meet the requirements. To do so, you must:

1. Access the PCAP files using NetWitness Investigator, and browse the Nmap scan (XML format), topology fisheye chart (PDF format), and Nessus report (HTML format).
2. Identify vulnerabilities and clear-text information transfer that are present in the current network setup
3. Research hardening strategies and provide recommendations and mitigation strategies for identified vulnerabilities
4. Conduct research and determine the best network design to meet the stated requirements.
5. Identify mechanisms for secure network access by remote users, both in terms of secure Web
6. access as well as reporting access conducted using the private network.
7. Develop a network security plan with recommendations for network realignment, hardening
8. practices, and policies for remote resource access.
9. Identify expectations from recommended changes and provide justification for each
10. recommendation in simple language so that primary stakeholders are able to understand it.
11. Create a professional report detailing the information above, presented as a recommendation for
12. a network security realignment project for Corporation Techs. Include persuasive justification and measurable expectations as part of this recommendation.