DA 201 - Operations and Database Security

Credit Hours: 4

This course will cover the fundamentals of operations and database security. Topics may include controls over hardware, software and backups, audits and monitoring, operations personnel, and physical security concepts. Also includes security management and concepts of Web security.

Course Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

describe and understand how vulnerability scanning is used to pinpoint potential weaknesses in the infrastructure;
understand and demonstrate port scanning and vulnerability scanning;
assess hacker challenges, malicious break-ins, and insider threats;
discuss encryption and steganography;
analyze the security issues that are specific to database systems;
identify and secure web exposures; and
observe TCP!IP packet streams to understand zone-based security.

Prerequisites: DA 107
F/S (N)