describing the main areas of concern for network security with examples and appropriate references to illustrate the core issues. One problem I have with your report is that you don’t give as much detail as I would like. For instance, you give deeper insight on the Minnesota Intrusion Detection system. I would expect similar levels of detail for illustrations in all of your other sections. More importantly, the main omission is a detailed account of your research activities. The present report doesn’t detail anything that you have done in a practical sense toward your research. Neither do you clearly indicate what you are planning to do. You say that ‘the direction I propose for this research is to develop a security culture and I hope to contribute to this area in the following ways so as to build a healthy security culture spectrum.’ Do you anticipate any practical contribution that you can make toward this goal? I