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CY-501 - OS Internals for Security Support

CSCY · Semester 5

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Architecture of the UNIX operating system System concepts Data structures Buffer Cache Buffer header Structure of Buffer pool Reading and writing disk blocks Files INODES Structure of a regular file Directories Super block INODE assignment System calls - OPEN, READ, CLOSE, WRITE, CREATE, CHMOD, CHOWN Pipes Mounting and Un-mounting

Layout System Memory Process Description Process control process creation signals Process scheduling Privileges Threats, intruders, malicious software time, clock Principals of Concurrency Inter-Process Communications - Process tracing System V IPC Shared Memory Semaphores

access control auditing trusted computing Multics and the commercial Operating Systems Malware analysis protection viruses, worms and Trojans Root-kits Ransomware Polymorphic malware Malware capture and analysis using honey-pots

Secure system configuration Virtualization techniques for security Mobile Operating Systems security Systems security in Android Application Security Secure wallets secure co-processors

versions Concepts and tools Windows internals System Architecture System worker threads Windows global flags Local procedural calls Socket Sockets Programming Winsock functions, data structures, descriptors Connections Socket elements Stream and Datagram Sockets