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• Describe likely attacker types against a particular system.
• Discuss the limitations of malware countermeasures (eg, signature-based
detection, behavioral detection).
• Identify instances of social engineering attacks and Denial of Service attacks.
• Discuss how Denial of Service attacks can be identified and mitigated.
• Describe risks to privacy and anonymity in commonly used applications.
• Discuss the concepts of covert channels and other data leakage procedures.
• Describe the different categories of network threats and attacks.
• Describe virtues and limitations of security technologies at each layer of the
network stack.
• Identify the appropriate defense mechanism(s) and its limitations given a network
threat.
• Discuss security properties and limitations of other non-wired networks.
• Define the following terms: cipher, cryptanalysis, cryptographic algorithm, and
cryptology and describe the two basic methods (ciphers) for transforming plain
text in cipher text.
• Discuss the importance of prime numbers in cryptography and explain their use
in cryptographic algorithms.
• Use cryptographic primitives and their basic properties.
IM
Core-Tier1:
• Describe how humans gain access to information and data to support their needs.
• Understand advantages and disadvantages of central organizational control over
data.
• Identify the careers/roles associated with information management (e.g., database
administrator, data modeler, application developer, end-user).
• Demonstrate uses of explicitly stored metadata/schema associated with data.
• Identify issues of data persistence for an organization.
Core-Tier2:
• Explain uses of declarative queries.
• Give a declarative version for a navigational query.
• Identify vulnerabilities and failure scenarios in common forms of information
systems.
• Describe the most common designs for core database system components
including the query optimizer, query executor, storage manager, access methods,
and transaction processor.
• Describe facilities that databases provide supporting structures and/or stream
(sequence) data, e.g., text.
• Compare and contrast appropriate data models, including internal structures, for
different types of data.
• Describe the differences between relational and semi-structured data models.
• Give a semi-structured equivalent (e.g., in DTD or XML Schema) for a given
relational schema.
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