IFSC 4330 - Database Security

Three hours lecture. Three credit hours.

Focus on security issues in databases systems and introduction of how current and future commercial systems may be designed to ensure secrecy and confidentiality. Topics include security models, basic security mechanisms and software, statistical database security, intrusion detection, security models for next generation databases, tested techniques and proven strategies for securing an Oracle environment — from the operating system to the database to the network, and how to implement security using Oracle’s built-in tools.

Prerequisites: IFSC 3330 or equivalent or consent of the instructor.