Evaluation of WAN Security Issues and Performance

This study aims to evaluate WAN security issues and performance, exploring WAN security policies, strategies, and ways to overcome security issues. The study also identifies the significance and scope of WAN technologies and principles of implementation. The research questions focus on WAN concepts, security policies, and strategies for effective security measures. The study finds that WAN technologies can capture multiple distance areas and share resources among different branches of companies. However, WAN security issues include vulnerability, eavesdropping, falsification, and unauthorized use. The study recommends data encryption, callback systems, public- and private-key security, and network operating systems with built-in security features as security measures. The implementation plan includes primary and secondary data collection, data analysis, and future research. At the end of this study, the researcher would be able to understand the wide area network security policies and guidelines to overcome security related issues.

Evaluation of the WAN security issues
and performance

Introduction
The purpose of study is to identify security and
performance measurement associates with Dynamic
Multipoint Virtual Private Network (DMVN).
With help of this research, investigator will be able to
measure impact of security factor on organizations and
users who are using WAN technologies in their day to
day business operations.

Aim and objectives
Aim
The main aim of the study is to evaluate WAN security issues and
performance.
Objectives:
 To understand WAN concept and principles of its implementation
 To explore the wide area network security issues and policies to
overcome security
 related issues
 To develop and implement WAN security strategy with considering
effective security
 measure
 To evaluate the ways and strategies in order to overcome WAN
security issues

Research questions
 What is WAN concept and basic terminology of wide area
network regarding its implementation at large geographical area?
 How wide area network security policies and guidelines can
help companies in reducing security related issues?
 How WAN security strategies can be implemented for effective
security measure of network?
 What are the main strategies and ways through which wide area
network related issues can be solved in a proper manner?

Significance and scope of study
Understanding WAN technologies and principles of wide area
network implementation
Increasing awareness about Security measures and wide area
network security policies
Investigating strategies required for reducing issues associated
with the use of wide area network technologies

Key findings from the literature
WAN capability
Capture multiple distance areas
Share resources among different branches of companies
Dynamic Multipoint Virtual Private Network(DMVN)
Establish fast moving of digital communications among different
branches
A full meshed connection between multiple sites (Anees and
Zeilinger, 2014).

Key findings from the literature
Security issues:
The vulnerability of a WAN
Capture, evesdropping, falsification issues
Attack specific qualitative levels of information (Johnson, 2011).
Unauthorized use, information theft, and malicious damage to
files

Key findings from the literature
Security measures
Data encryption
Callback systems
Public- and private-key security
Network operating systems with built-in
security features

Requirement analysis [Prototyping model]
Requirement identification
• Understanding of WAN concepts
• Security issues associated with WAN technologies
• Discuss main strategies and ways through which wide area network
related issues
Develop initial prototype
• Conducting review of literature
• Technical feasibility of project is checked
• Secondary and primary data collection related to topic
• Actual findings and facts are gathered
• Statistical test is applied
Review of prototype
• Findings disuses with tutor
• Further enhancement
• Feedback is collected in an organized manner
• Changes accepted and incorporate in research

Design specification
Primary data collection
Respondents: HP, Defcon and Cisco IT employees
Sample size: 100
Tool: Statistical software package for social science (SPSS)
Secondary data collection
Literature review [Books, Journals and online published report
on companies]

Implementation plan
Data collection
• Researcher will approach IT companies respondents
• To find Security issues associated with WAN technologies and security
measures
• Research gap identified
Data analysis • Hypothesis is framed
• Statistical tool will be applied for data analysis
Recommend and future research
• Future research
• Limitations of study
• Way to overcome limitations

Research findings
At the end of this study, researcher would be able to understand
the wide area network security policies and guidelines to
overcome security related issues.
It also helps researcher to measure performance and security
parameter of Dynamic Multipoint Virtual Private Network
(DMVPN).
With help of study, researcher would be able to identify and
overcome security issues associated with WAN.

References
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 Anees, T. and Zeilinger, H., 2014. Performance evaluation of a service
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 Liang, X., Qin, J. and Wan, J., 2014. An Effective and Secure Epidemic
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