• Pre CS-520
• Pre CS-492

  Introduction

  This course covers some of the most essential aspects of systems administration, giving students the opportunity to develop the skills necessary to analyze and troubleshoot problems arising in every day usage of networked computer systems, applying equally to single-user systems, as well as to large-scale installations. Some of the topics covered include: hardware configuration, operating system installation, shell programming, security policies, back-up deployment and disaster recovery, network design, software installation and maintenance, operating system tuning, and best practices for problem determination. Security topics including packet sniffers and spoofers, buffer overflow attacks and stack protection, and firewalls and intrusion detection are also covered, with an emphasis on their implementation. Students are expected to be comfortable in a Unix-like environment on a user level and have a solid understanding of TCP/IP networking and operating system concepts.

Teacher

David Pfeffer
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR

Email: dpfeffer@stevens.edu

Education

Bachelors of Science in Computer Science
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ
Honors; Minor in Law and Public Policy
Masters of Science in Computer Science
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ
4.0 GPA; Graduate Certificates in Computer Systems, Databases & Service Oriented Architecture, Distributed Systems, Enterprise Computing, Quantitative Software Engineering, Service Oriented Computing
Professional Societies
Member of the IEEE Computer Society and ACM.
Courses
CS 521 TCP/IP Networking
CS 570 Introduction to Programming, Data Structures, and Algorithms
CS 465 Selected Topics in Computer Science
SSW 810 Selected Topics in Systems Centric Software Engineering