The course examines past, present, and emerging approaches for securing operating systems. The focus is to provide a foundation for understanding requirements to secure hosts at the operating system level and survey the landscape of available tools and techniques for implementing operating system security controls. Includes: Experiential Learning Activity Prerequisite(s): (COMP 3000 or SYSC 4001) and CSEC 3108. Lectures three hours a week. [0.5 credits]
The course examines past, present, and emerging approaches for securing operating systems. The focus is to provide a foundation for understanding requirements to secure hosts at the operating system level and survey the landscape of available tools and techniques for implementing operating system security controls. Includes: Experiential Learning Activity Prerequisite(s): (COMP 3000 or SYSC 4001) and CSEC 3108. Lectures three hours a week. [0.5 credits]