| Topic | Content and Assignments | Understanding |
| Multilevel Database | Assignment: Create View and analyse the complexity | Data Classification Types Security complication in Multilevel Database Security Models |
| Redundant Array Inexpensive/Independent Disk (RAID) | RAID for Availability RAID Levels Disk Recovery | |
| Differential Privacy | Why not Guassian Distribution for Noise? | Statistical Database Privacy Issue Laplace Distribution Tradeoff - Accuracy and Privacy |
| Merkle Tree | Implement a simple Binary Merkle Tree | How this can be implemented? Overhead Optimization Granular Integrity Verification |
| Encrypted Database Management | Partitioning Indexing and Mapping Overheads | |
| WebAuthn | Registration and Authentication Process Drawbacks with the Password based Authentication Why is it part of DBS subject? | |
| Outsourced Database | Identify your own method to ensure the freshness of the content | Security Requirements Completeness, Correctness and Freshness Construction Cost |
| Integrity of Outsourced Data using Merkle Tree (Ref:http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1366/paper13.pdf ) | Practice the query and analyse the overhead | Tree Construction using the Radix Path Identifier (RPI) Properties of RPI Authentication Table and Data Extraction |
| Keyword/Index Search on Encrypted Text Data | Plain Index Issue Build Index Search Index | |
| SQL Injection | Practice NoSQL Injection using MongoDB | First Order SQLi Second Order SQLi Prevention Techniques |
| Database Watermarking | Possible Attacks on Watermark and Solutions | Stegnography vs Hidden Watermark Single Bit Watermarking Watermark Extraction Tradeoff |
| Damage Quarantine and Recovery (DQR) | Introduction Problems in DQR Transaction DQR | |
| Private Information Retrieval | Introduction Oblivious Transfer Protocol Multi-Party Computation Garbled Circuit | |
| Cloud Security | Introduction TPM Goolge Cloud and AWS Storage Security | |
| Anonymity | Implement K-Anonymity for the static data | Introduction K-Anonymity L-Diversity T-Closeness Earth-Mover's Distance |