MAIN SIT COURSEWORK QUESTION PAPER: Year Long 2023/2024
| Module Code: CC6011NI Module Title: Digital Investigation and E-Discovery Module Leader: Mr. Monil Adhikari |
| Coursework Type: Individual Coursework Weight: This coursework accounts for 50% of your total module grades. Submission Date: Week 12 (Thursday, 11 January 2024) When Coursework is Week 3 given out: Submission Submit the following to Islington College’s MST portal before Instructions: the due date (before 01:00 PM on the due date): ● The documentation in MS Word compatible or PDF format Warning: London Metropolitan University and Islington College takes Plagiarism seriously. Offenders will be dealt with sternly. |
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Plagiarism Notice
You are reminded that there exist regulations concerning plagiarism.
Extracts from University Regulations on Cheating, Plagiarism and Collusion
Section 2.3: “The following broad types of offence can be identified and are provided as indicative examples …..
i.Cheating: including copying coursework.
ii.Falsifying data in experimental results.
iii.Personation, where a substitute takes an examination or test on behalf of the candidate. Both candidate and substitute may be guilty of an offence under these Regulations. iv.Bribery or attempted bribery of a person thought to have some influence on the candidate’s assessment.
v.Collusion to present joint work as the work solely of one individual.
vi.Plagiarism, where the work or ideas of another are presented as the candidate’s own. vii.Other conduct calculated to secure an advantage on assessment.
viii.Assisting in any of the above.
Some notes on what this means for students:
i.Copying another student’s work is an offence, whether from a copy on paper or from a computer file, and in whatever form the intellectual property being copied takes, including text, mathematical notation and computer programs.
ii.Taking extracts from published sources without attribution is an offence. To quote ideas, sometimes using extracts, is generally to be encouraged. Quoting ideas is achieved by stating an author’s argument and attributing it, perhaps by quoting, immediately in the text, his or her name and year of publication, e.g. ” e = mc2 (Einstein 1905)”. A reference section at the end of your work should then list all such references in alphabetical order of authors’ surnames. (There are variations on this referencing system which your tutors may prefer you to use.) If you wish to quote a paragraph or so from published work then indent the quotation on both left and right margins, using an italic font where practicable, and introduce the quotation with an attribution.
Further information in relation to the existing London Metropolitan University regulations concerning plagiarism can be obtained from http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/academic regulations
SCHOOL OF COMPUTING AND DIGITAL MEDIA
MODULE: CC6011 DIGITAL INVESTIGATION & E-DISCOVERY
SPECIFICATION OF THE COURSE WORK (SEM 1 2023-24) (MAIN SIT) ● Individual technical report in about 1500 words
● Weighting: 50%
This technical report should be the culmination of good literature review work carried out through using a wide mix of sources: lecture slides, textbooks, industrial standards and guidelines, research papers, and web resources.
It should present the appropriate background on the topic area of interest. It should also present technical content in relative depth looking at all the issues concerned. The report needs an introduction at the beginning and a conclusion at the end. Your lecturer also prefers the report should be critical in terms of literature review and creative in terms of the report content (incl. method, results, and evaluation). A list of resources
referenced, and a separate bibliography should be produced in the Harvard/IEEE reference format.
The two links can be good references for report structure (though not restricted to the two):
1. http://www2.port.ac.uk/media/contacts-and-departments/student-support services/ask/downloads/Key-features-of-academic-reports.pdf
2. https://www.wordy.com/writers-workshop/writing-an-academic-report/
The key texts indicated in the module specification, specialist journals, and various Web sites, such as Computer Crime Research Centre (http://www.crime-research.org/), Uniting Forensic Computing Practitioners! (http://www.f3.org.uk/), Computer Forensics: Anti-Forensic Tools & Techniques (https://resources.infosecinstitute.com/category/computerforensics/introduction/areas
of-study/digital-forensics/anti-forensic-tools-techniques/#gref), and The Metasploit Project Web site (http:// http://www.metasploit.com/), etc. provide a good guidance in terms of the report content.
The technical report is to be based on one of the topics listed below, which link to one or more sections of the module syllabus.
1. real-time analytical techniques to detect security events
2. open-source digital forensics tools, anti-forensics tools and scenarios 3. mobile forensics and anti-forensics development, tools and scenarios 4. computer forensics and anti-forensics development, tools and scenarios 5. Information war or cyber warfare analysis, techniques, tools and scenarios 6. Metasploit and its applications in pen test and anti-forensics
7. data hiding and detection techniques
8. techniques and tools for elimination of digital evidence
9. steganography and steganalysis techniques
10.digital watermarking and media signature
11.direct attacks against computer forensic tools
12.covert channel analysis and data hiding in TCP/IP
13.Threat Intelligence and development
14.digital/cybercrime evolution, detection, and prevention
15.anti-forensics techniques, tools, scenarios, and application
16.a comprehensive study of social engineering in computer security 17.data analytics in digital forensics and crime investigation
Assessment Guidelines and Submission Details
This report should have about 1500 words in length (excluding references and bibliography).
If you think there is a good reason for late submission, such as disability or illness, and you have supporting documentary evidence then you should contact the PAT in advance for the arrangement of late submission through emails.
Marking Scheme
The coursework is assessed on the following criteria:
| Items 1. academic challenge/originality | Weighting |
| 10% | |
| 2. analysis/research | 35% |
| 3. critical reflection and conclusion | 15% |
| 4. clarity of expression and readability | 15% |
| 5. construction and presentation of the document | 15% |
| 6. reference and bibliography | 10% |
