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MIS 5170-18 Topic: Operating Systems Security

MIS 5170 - Section 001 - Andrew Szajlai

Fox School of Business

About

Instructor

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Andrew Szajlai

andrew.szajlai@temple.edu

Course description

This course introduces students’ to operating system security and tools to secure and audit it’s operating systems.  Methods of securing operating systems will be explored in theory and in hands on exercises.  The course will require simple programming using operating system specific and Open Source scripting languages.  For that reason some knowledge of and experience with computer programming is required.  General operating system usability with Microsoft Windows and/or Linux is required.

Credits

SANS Reading Room, Microsoft, Offensive Security, and Cisco Press

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Weekly Discussions

  • Week 01: Overview (3)
  • Week 02: Hypervisors (1)
  • Week 03: Windows Scripting and Limiting Access (1)
  • Week 04: Windows Configuration Management (2)
  • Week 05: Windows Patching (1)
  • Week 06: Windows Antivirus and Sniffers (1)
  • Week 07: Windows Firewalls (1)
  • Week 09: Windows Logging (1)
  • Week 10: Unix/Linux Basics (1)
  • Week 11: Unix/Linux Configuration Management (1)
  • Week 12: Unix/Linux Patching (1)
  • Week 13: Unix/Linux Sniffers and Firewalls (1)
  • Week 14: Unix/Linux Network Controls (1)

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