Systems Security

The course overviews principles, concepts, methods, and best practices in computer systems security. The students will obtain the necessary background and hands-on experience to design secure computer systems, study attacks and defense methods in computer systems, develop and test code to explore vulnerabilities, and apply practical defenses against software and hardware attacks. Topics covered in the course include:

• Hardware primitives

• Operating systems abstractions

• System-level attacks and defenses

• Secure systems engineering