Towards Academic Organizations Security

Abstract

Organizations that have limited proper knowledge of network security infrastructure often struggle to design and implement effective network security plan for their websites. Such gap can lead to severe damages to the institution, for instance, the insecure website can lead to loss of data. The importance of having a security system in place is that it enables organizations to monitor their traffics and other security issues. The information discussed in this paper gives a detailed plan of a network security plan that is capable of optimizing the network security the university website from any malicious attack. Besides, the paper highlights the various steps that are essential when developing network security structure such as network segmentation, detection of intrusion, prevention mechanism, and security logging events as well as packet capturing strategies. In its entirety, this proposal gives a broad description of the background of the research, its significance and a methodology section presenting the approach used in carrying out this study. The research assumptions, limitations and delimitations are also highlighted in a broader manner, a detailed review of past literature work related to web network security. The network security infrastructure is also designed in a manner that allows other stakeholders to know how the system works so that they can participate in securing the network security of the University network.