Operating Systems and Application Security

Course aim

To develop students’ ability to secure enterprise applications and their associated environments.

Course content

In this course, students will gain specialist skills and knowledge in the following:

• Operating system level privilege management, auditing and control.
• The most common features of secure application development and implementation.
• Techniques for secure server application deployment.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
INFT 5032	Network Infrastructure
INFT 5030	IT Concepts
INFS 5115	Security Principles

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, MAWSON LAKES
Seminar	1 hour x 13 weeks
Practical	2 hours x 12 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Continuous assessment, Practical, Report, Test

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 2)
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Fee-paying program for domestic and international students
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.