Answers MUST be written in your own words. If an answer contains more than 10% direct quote (referenced or unreferenced), 0 marks will be awarded for this question. One or two sentence answers will be too short and only receive low marks. Answers longer than 1.5 pages (12 point font, single line spacing) may incur a penalty if too much non-relevant information is stated. For mathematical questions it is expected that you show intermediate steps of your working. Just stating the co
ect solution will result in low marks, on the other hand if the working is co
ect and you only made minor mistakes, you will still be awarded marks, even though the final answer is wrong.
Question 1Â Â [5 Marks]
Automated Teller Machines (ATM) are designed so that users will provide a personal identification number (PIN) and a card to access their bank accounts. Give examples of confidentiality, integrity and availability requirements associated in such a system and describe the degree of importance for each requirement.
Question 2Â Â [5 Marks]
A thief
oke into an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) using a screwdriver and was able to jam the card reader as well as
eaking five keys from the keypad. The thief had to halt the process of
eak-in and hide, as a customer approached to use the ATM. The customer was able to successfully enter their ATM card, punch in the 4 digit PIN and was able to draw out some cash. Since the card reader was jammed, the customer was however not able to withdraw the ATM card, and drove off to seek some help. In the meantime, the thief came back and decided to try to discover the customer’s PIN so that he can steal money from the customer. You are required to calculate the maximum number of PINs that the thief may have to enter before co
ectly discovering the customer’s PIN?
Question 3Â Â [5 Marks]
Thinking about bio-metric authentication, list three reasons why people may be reluctant to use bio-metrics. Describe various ways of how to counter those objections.
Question 4Â Â [5 Marks]
In bio-metric authentication, false positive and false negative rates can be tuned according to the requirement, and they are often complementary i.e. raising one lowers the other. Describe two circumstances where false negatives are significantly more serious than false positives.
Question 5 Â Â [10 Marks]
Transposition is one known method of encrypting the text. What can be one way that a piece of cipher text can be determined quickly if it was likely a result of a transposition? Utilizing some of the decryption techniques (substitution and others) covered in the subject so far, you are required to decipher (find the plain text) the cipher text that will be provided to you closer to the assessment due date via the subject site. In order to present your solution, you need to demonstrate and explain the steps taken to decipher this text.
This assessment task will assess the following learning outcome/s:
· be able to justify security goals and the importance of maintaining the secure computing environment against digital threats.
· be able to explain the fundamental concepts of cryptographic algorithms.
· be able to examine malicious activities that may affect the security of a computer program and justify the choice of various controls to mitigate threats.
· be able to compare and contrast foundational security policies and models that deal with integrity and confidentiality.
·  Must ensure that all tasks/questions are identified clearly with headings.
· Answers to the questions must be in your own words and should be precise but complete and informative. No marks will be awarded for any answer containing more than 10% direct quotes (referenced or un referenced).
· APA reference style must be used throughout the document with the bibliography at the end of the document. In-text citations should also follow APA style.Â
Criteria