
Operating Systems - Systems Security
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Operating Systems - Systems Security
Learn how to secure operating systems from malicious bugs and viruses with this free computer system security course.
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This course is
CPD-Accredited
Learning Outcomes
Having completed this course, you will be able to:
- Distinguish between secrecy, integrity, and availability with regard to security goals
- Define what denial of service attacks means
- Explain when access control techniques are used
- Describe the components for developing an access control system
- Distinguish between DAC, MAC, and RBAC
- Explain what a leaky state is
- Explain information flow policies
- Describe the mandatory access control mechanism
- Distinguish between the Biba model and the Bell-LaPadula model
- Explain how a stack in a program is managed
- Define the use of buffer overflows
- Describe how an attacker could create an exploit code
- List some techniques to overcome buffer overflow vulnerability;
- Explain how return to libc' attacks works
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