Three Years Gone Missing
Your PhD dissertation data - three years of meticulous research, analysis, and writing - has vanished from every backup system hours before the final submission deadline. Your advisor, Professor Chen, who has a copy of your earlier draft, is mysteriously unreachable. As panic sets in, you discover unusual access patterns in your cloud storage logs.
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Difficulty
B1-B2
Scenario Overview
Your Role
PhD Candidate in final submission week
Conversation Partner
Dr. Marcus Webb - Department IT Security Director
Setting
Basement level university IT security office, illuminated only by monitor glow and emergency exit signs
Location
Research University Computer Science Department
Learning Objectives
Prove your innocence by identifying inconsistencies in the access logs
Locate evidence of the broader cyberattack targeting research data
Recover or reconstruct critical dissertation data before the deadline
About This Scenario
Your PhD dissertation data - three years of meticulous research, analysis, and writing - has vanished from every backup system hours before the final submission deadline. Your advisor, Professor Chen, who has a copy of your earlier draft, is mysteriously unreachable. As panic sets in, you discover unusual access patterns in your cloud storage logs.
How It Starts
“Please take a seat. Our logs show your credentials accessed the secure research server at 3:42 AM, systematically deleting terabytes of data. Care to explain why you're destroying evidence hours before your submission deadline?”
This is how Dr. Marcus Webb - Department IT Security Director's greeting will start.
Practice Details
Scenario ID
#1176
Category
General
Location Tag
Research University Computer Science Department
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