Introduction to Database Security

Course Description : Basic data protection methods such as discretionary and mandatory access controls, secure database design, data integrity, secure architectures, secure transaction processing, information flow controls, and auditing, Copyright and database protection, privacy issues (including employee records and HIPAA). Security models for relational and object-oriented databases, Security of databases in a distributed environment, survey of commercial systems, and research prototypes.

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Lecture			Download PPT Slides
Lecture 1 :			Database Security
Lecture 2 :			Access Control
Lecture 3 :			Authentication
Lecture 4 :			Vulnerabilities
Lecture 5 :			Multilevel Security
Lecture 6 :			Polyinstantiation
Lecture 7 :			Security Architecture
Lecture 8 :			SQL Server Security
Lecture 9 :			Security Plan
Lecture 10:			Secure Storage
Lecture 11:			DB-inferences
Lecture 12:			Privacy-Protection
Lecture 13:			Security Audit
Student		Report Title
Erica Thomas		Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Alvaro I. Gálvez		Multilevel Database Security
Daniel Blevins		Sarbanes Oxley Act
T. Nguyen		Sarbanes – Oxley Act of 2002
Charles Mahoney		Security Auditing
Due Date	Assignment/Report
February 3	Assignment 1
February 8	Research Report 1
February 22	Assignment 2
March 1	Assignment 3
March 22	Assignment 4
March 22	Research Report 2
April 14	Research Report 3
April 19	Assignment 5