CISC 570 - Advanced Database Security

(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: CISC 560
Description: This course focuses on topics related to the design and implementation of secure data stores. Emphasis is placed on multi-level security in database systems, covert channels, and security measures for relational and object-oriented database systems. This course teaches how to recognize the insecurities present within common database systems and how these flaws can leave a database wide open to attack. The course covers how hackers discover and exploit vulnerabilities to gain access to a data store.