COURSE INTRODUCTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

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Course Name

Code	Semester	Theory (hour/week)	Application/Lab (hour/week)	Local Credits	ECTS
	Fall/Spring

Prerequisites	None
Course Language
Course Type	Elective
Course Level	-
Mode of Delivery	-
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course	Application: Experiment / Laboratory / Workshop
Course Coordinator	-
Course Lecturer(s)	-
Assistant(s)	-

Course Objectives
Learning Outcomes	The students who succeeded in this course; be able to learn security related details of Oss and their critical dependece factors, be able to learn methods needed to analysis and discover threats against Oss be able to learn techniques and and tools needed to implement countermeasures against threats.
Course Description

Course Category	Core Courses
	Major Area Courses
	Supportive Courses
	Media and Managment Skills Courses
	Transferable Skill Courses

WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES

Week	Subjects	Required Materials
1	Introduction, basic terms & concepts in information security & related legal issues	Preliminary study 1
2	Basics of OS Security; concepts, general & common problems, threats, countermeasures	Preliminary study 2
3	Access controls & methodologies, IAAA in OS & relevant technologies & applications in today’s world	Preliminary study 3
4	Centralized / decentralized IAAA solutions, different IAAA architectures in secure OS	Preliminary study 4
5	Audit & monitoring in OS	Preliminary study 5
6	Intro to cryptography, protection of assets, data, systems in OS with today’s best practices	Preliminary study 6
7	Secure system management; models, solutions, various technologies	Preliminary study 7
8	Midterm
9	Opensource architecture & approach and its relation with information security & OS security	Preliminary study 8
10	IAAA differences of Linux vs. Windows architectures	Part I Guide to Operating Systems Security, Michael Palmer
11	IAAA differences of Linux vs. Windows architectures	Part II Guide to Operating Systems Security, Michael Palmer
12	Network related issues in OS Security	Part I Guide to Operating Systems Security, Michael Palmer
13	Network related issues in OS Security (including cryptographic basics)	Part II Guide to Operating Systems Security, Michael Palmer
14	Related vulnerabilities, threats & countermeasures (DOS attacks, malicious codes, XSS, rootkits, JavaScript, SQL, Ajax, .Net, Apache, IIS, etc)	Part I Guide to Operating Systems Security, Michael Palmer
15	Related vulnerabilities, threats & countermeasures (DOS attacks, malicious codes, XSS, rootkits, JavaScript, SQL, Ajax, .Net, Apache, IIS, etc)	Part II Guide to Operating Systems Security, Michael Palmer
16	Review of the Semester

Course Notes/Textbooks

Suggested Readings/Materials

Maximum Linux Security (2nd Edition), John Ray, Sams, 2 Pap/Cdr edition, 2001, ISBN10: 0672321343, ISBN13: 9780672321344 Hacking Exposed Windows Server 2003, Joel Scambray & Stuart McClure, McGrawHill Osborne Media, 2006, ISBN10: 0072230614, ISBN13: 9780072230611 CISSP Textbook, Vallabhaneni, S.Rao, SRV Pro Publications, 2002, ASIN: B0006S7QN0 ISO27001:IEC, British Standards Institution, 2005 Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, Stuart McClure, et al, McGrawHill Osborne, Fourth Edition, 2003, ISBN 0072227427 Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, Schneier, Bruce, Second Edition, 1998, ISBN 0471117099 Hacking Exposed Web Applications, Scambray, Joel, et al, Second Edition, McGrawHill Osborne, 2006, ISBN 0072262990

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Semester Activities	Number	Weigthing
Participation
Laboratory / Application	5	10
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments	4	40
Presentation / Jury
Project
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterm	1	20
Final Exam	1	30
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade		70
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade		30
Total

ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE

Semester Activities	Number	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours)	16	2	32
Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours)	16	2
Study Hours Out of Class	6	2
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments	4	5
Presentation / Jury
Project
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterms	1	10
Final Exams	1	36
		Total	142

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP

#	Program Competencies/Outcomes	* Contribution Level
#	Program Competencies/Outcomes	1	2	3	4	5
1	Be able to define problems in real life by identifying functional and nonfunctional requirements that the software is to execute
2	Be able to design and analyze software at component, subsystem, and software architecture level
3	Be able to develop software by coding, verifying, doing unit testing and debugging		X
4	Be able to verify software by testing its behaviour, execution conditions, and expected results
5	Be able to maintain software due to working environment changes, new user demands and the emergence of software errors that occur during operation
6	Be able to monitor and control changes in the software, the integration of software with other software systems, and plan to release software versions systematically
7	To have knowledge in the area of software requirements understanding, process planning, output specification, resource planning, risk management and quality planning
8	Be able to identify, evaluate, measure and manage changes in software development by applying software engineering processes
9	Be able to use various tools and methods to do the software requirements, design, development, testing and maintenance				X
10	To have knowledge of basic quality metrics, software life cycle processes, software quality, quality model characteristics, and be able to use them to develop, verify and test software
11	To have knowledge in other disciplines that have common boundaries with software engineering such as computer engineering, management, mathematics, project management, quality management, software ergonomics and systems engineering				X
12	Be able to grasp software engineering culture and concept of ethics, and have the basic information of applying them in the software engineering		X
13	Be able to use a foreign language to follow related field publications and communicate with colleagues				X

*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest