"Operating System and Security" is a course offered in the first semester of M. Tech. in Cyber Security Systems & Networks program at School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri.
Processes – Processes, Threads, Inter Process Communications (IPC) , Synchronization –Semaphores, Monitors, Scheduling, Classical IPC problems, Case study – Process in Linux, User and Kernel threads, Memory 8 Management - Memory abstraction, Virtual memory, Page replacement algorithms, Design issues for paging system, Segmentation. File Systems - Files, Directories, File System Management and Optimization. Virtualization Techniques.Introduction to OS Security.Linux Kernel Modules.Linux Security Modules, SELinux.Malwares. Introduction to Kernel exploitation - User space vs. Kernel space Attacks, Kernel Stack Vulnerabilities. Case study - Linux kernel
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum, “Modern Operating Systems”, Third Edition, Prentice Hall, 2009.
- Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin and Greg Gagne, “Operating System Concepts with Java”, Ninth Edition, Wiley, 2012.
- Trent Jaeger ,”Operating System Security”, Morgan and Claypool, 2008
- Enrico Perla, MassimilianoOldani, “A Guide to Kernel Exploitation - Attacking the Core”, VElsevier, Syngress, 2011
- Wolfgang Mauerer, “Professional Linux Kernel Architecture”, Wiley, 2008.
- Daniel P. Bovet and Marco Cesati, “Understanding the Linux Kernel”, Third Edition,O'Reilly, 2006.
- W. Richard Stevens, Stephen A. Rago, “Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment”, Third Edition, 2013
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