UUY-CYB 3162 units300 LevelFirst Semester

Database Management and Control Systems

B.Sc. Cybersecurity, University of Uyo

Securing database systems from the ground up: installing and configuring a database product, security architecture and operating-system security principles, user/privilege/role administration, and database auditing models and practice.

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Course outline

  1. 01Enterprise security issues in database systems
  2. 02Installing a typical database product
  3. 03Security architecture and operating system security principles
  4. 04Administration of users, profiles, and password policies
  5. 05Privileges and roles
  6. 06Database application security models
  7. 07Database auditing models and application data auditing
  8. 08Practices of database auditing

Recommended textbooks

  • Database System Concepts — Silberschatz, Korth & Sudarshan

    7th ed. — the standard database textbook globally

  • Database Security and Auditing — Hassan Afyouni

    Comprehensive coverage of database-specific security controls

How to pass UUY-CYB 316

  • Use MySQL Workbench or pgAdmin (both free) to practise installing and securing a database hands-on
  • Database roles and privileges follow the same access-control logic as UUY-CYB 314 (Information Security Models) — connect them
  • Practise setting up a users/privileges/password-policy scheme for a sample organisation — a common practical exam task
  • SQL injection prevention from CYB 224 directly applies here — connect both courses in exam answers

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