Course 6 Trusted Systems Design, Analysis, and Development

High consequence applications such as for critical infrastructure require highly reliable, trusted systems to assure the required availability of processing, and to assure the required confidentiality and integrity of information and processing, even if some parts of the system have high exposure to the adversary. Hardware and software design techniques for these Trusted Systems must evolve and advance as the sophistication of the cyber adversary also advances. This course conveys a methodology for the development of trusted systems in which the adversary is considered "part of the system".

Trusted Systems lay at the core of secure systems. A detailed understanding of the design, analysis and implementation of trusted systems is essential for the development of secure information systems. This course provides an overview of computer security to include an analysis of what is computer security, why systems are not secure, and the general concepts and design techniques applicable to the design of hardware and software. It examines in detail; the principles of a security architecture, access control, policy and the threat of malicious code; the considerations of trusted system implementation to include hardware security mechanisms, security models, security kernels, and architectural alternatives; the related assurance measures associated with trusted systems to include documentation, formal specification and verification, and testing, and approaches that extend the trusted system, into applications such as databases and into networks and distributed systems.

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