CYBS3220 - Secure System Design

Trusted Systems lay at the core of secure systems. A detailed understanding of the design, analysis, and implementation of trusted systems is essential for the development of secure information systems. This course provides an overview of computer security to include an analysis of what is computer security, why systems are not secure, and the general concepts and design techniques applicable to the design of hardware and software. It examines in detail the principles of security architecture, access control, policy, and the threat of malicious code; the considerations of trusted system implementation to include hardware security mechanisms, security models, security kernels, and architectural alternatives; the related assurance measures associated with trusted systems to include documentation, formal specification, verification, and testing. That core needs to be sufficiently capable that it can be leveraged by approaches that extend the trusted system, into applications such as databases and into networks and distributed systems.
3 Credits