Cybersecurity in Operating Systems

The aim of this course is to enable students to understand and manage the mechanisms underlying the functioning and implementation of an operating system: abstraction levels, synchronous/asynchronous event management, clock management, peripheral management, memory management, communication mechanisms, concurrency primitives, interprocess management and communication, and hardware component security.
The theoretical exposition of the various topics will be accompanied by laboratory lessons during which students will have the opportunity to experiment with the concepts learned on a microcontroller through the development of a microkernel.
The laboratory lessons will also provide students with the opportunity to:
delve deeper into assembly and C programming, and learn how to use an integrated development environment for a commercial embedded system.

Understanding the main mechanisms underlying the functioning of an operating system.
Understanding the operating mechanisms of a digital system
Knowing how to use the main tools for system software development
Knowing how to design a basic HW/SO interface
Knowing how to design and implement an I/O management driver
Knowing how to implement an interrupt response routine
Knowing how to design and implement a real-time scheduler
Knowing how to design and implement a basic microkernel