2018-2019 Catalog 
    
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2018-2019 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ITSY 2300 - Operating System Security


3 Credits (2 hrs. lec., 3 hrs. lab.) Safeguard computer operating systems by demonstrating server support skills and designing and implementing a security system. Identify security threats and monitor network security implementations. Use best practices to configure operating systems to industry security standards. Prerequisite: College Level Readiness in Reading AND Writing, ITSC 1307  
Course Outcomes
1 - Identify network security risks, proper security design, and monitoring solutions.
2 - Identify sources of computer threats, evaluate potential practices, tools, and technologies to protect individual network systems.
3 - Establish and sustain an operating system security plan utilizing systems and application security tools.
4 - Implement procedures to secure and monitor audit logs and set system administrator alerts.
5 - Develop an organizational operating system security plan that provides for periodic reviews of security policies, procedures, authorized users list, and software update patches.