ITSY 2300 - Operating System Security

Credit Hours: 3
Contact Hours - Lecture: 2 Lab: 3
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
Student Learning 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.