Course - Infrastructure: secure core services - DCST1005
Infrastructure: secure core services
About
About the course
Course content
- Private and public cloud solutions
- Security challenges that are specific to cloud solutions
- Tools for managing cloud solutions
- Installation and availability
- Infrastructure migration
- Surveillance
- Centralized logging
- Catalog services
- Identity management, authentication and authorization
- Basic performance analysis
Learning outcome
Knowledge
- K1: The candidate has a basic understanding of the technology in private and public cloud solutions, including migration of infrastructures across platforms
- K2: The candidate has broad knowledge of various methods and tools for monitoring infrastructures
- K3: The candidate has broad knowledge of security challenges in cloud solutions
Skills
- S1: The candidate can use the most used tools for managing cloud solutions
- S2: The candidate can perform basic setup for automated installation and provisioning (provisioning)
- S3: The candidate can perform centralized logging and monitoring with associated incident management processes
- S4: The candidate can plan and perform basic setup of directory services and centralized solutions for identity management, authentication and authorization
- S5: The candidate can perform basic configuration management and software updates in cloud-based infrastructures
- S6: The candidate can perform simple performance appraisals
General competence
- G1: The candidate is aware of the advantages and disadvantages of using cloud-based infrastructures in different organizations
- G2: The candidate can convey operational terminology, both orally and in writing
- G3: The candidate knows how the risk picture of organizations can be affected by the choice of different IT solutions
Learning methods and activities
Lectures, problem solving individually and in groups, lab exercises.
Compulsory assignments
- Assignments
Further on evaluation
Mandatory assignments must be approved in order to take the exam.
Re-sit for the written exam is in August. Written exam might be changed to oral exam for the re-sit exam.
Exam can be answered in English or Norwegian (Bokmål/Nynorsk).
Specific conditions
Admission to a programme of study is required:
Digital Infrastructure and Cyber Security (BDIGSEC)
Recommended previous knowledge
Building on the subject DCST1001 Infrastructure: basic skills
Required previous knowledge
Admission to the study program Bachelor of Science in Digital Infrastructure and Cyber Security is required.
Course materials
Information will be posted in LMS when the semester starts
- Videos
- Written lessons
- Excerpts from articles and books
Credit reductions
| Course code | Reduction | From |
|---|---|---|
| IDRI2001 | 5 sp | Autumn 2019 |
| DCSG1005 | 7.5 sp | Autumn 2019 |
Subject areas
- Information Security