Require network security research questions

[misa () hotmail co uk]

4th Year Honour Student here. Starting my honours project already having done research yet still unable to produce a 
Research Question, title or direction to take. 

My interests lie in the general area of network security along with Attack methods/preventions/resolutions, IDS vs IPS 
and white hat hacking/ethical hacking. I'd like to do a project thats going to involve mostly research. Any development 
work should be limited to data collection for analysis rather than the design of a piece of software.

If anyone knows of research questions/projects that may be appropriate or has suggestions please reply. Lack of a 
focused path is making it difficult for me to make any progress. I feel I'd be able to make a strong attempt at a 
network security project that is solely research based rather than design.

Thank You

Asim