L Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Computer System Security and Management – D0004E
LP1, 2009


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Course aim

At the end of the course the student should be competent to install and secure an operating system and maintain data integrity. Common flaws in software should be recognized and the student should be able to mitigate or fix them. How to use standard tools to analyze systems and detect attacks should be known. After the course the student should be able to independently solve problems and perform common system management tasks. The students should be able to search, read and comprehend information from different sources on their own.

Course content


Official description in the course catalog.

Examiner

Jingsen Chen
Room: A3300 corridor

Lecturers & lab instructors

Peter A. Jonsson
E-mail: email adress
Room: A2310

Simon Aittamaa
E-mail: Left as an exercise for the reader.
Room: A2312

Literature



Limoncelli et al.
The Practice of System and Network Administration .
Addison-Wesley Professional; 2 edition.
ISBN: 0321492668.

Schedule

View the on-line schedule information.

Written exam: (4 hours)

Lecture notes

Note that some of these are pre-lecture slides, this means that they might not be fully updated to reflect the actual contents of the lecture.
Lecture
Contents
Slides
1
Introduction
Lecture1.pdf
2
Unix/Windows Systems and Installation
Lecture2.pdf
3
DNS
Lecture3.pdf
4
Authentication, Authorization and Directories
Lecture4.pdf
5
Mail
Lecture5.pdf
6
Toolchain
Lecture6.pdf
7
Storage and Backup
Lecture7.pdf
8
File, Printing and Software Deployment
Lecture8.pdf
9
Security #1
Lecture9.pdf
10
Threats
Lecture10.pdf
11
Security #2
Lecture11.pdf


Lab information

Lab instructions

Miscellaneous lab information

Lab groups and progress information

Example exam

Old exams 1
Old exams 2

Course evaluation


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