In this course, each student is required to conduct research and write a paper that covers an approved topic area of database security.  Present your choice of topic for the Database Security Research Paper.  Your topic proposal should be at least one paragraph in length with citations to at least two references (besides the book) that help support the topic you wish to research.  A brief summary of these references should be included.  In addition, you must provide a one (1) page, high-level outline of your paper.  Draft and final versions of the research paper are due by the end of Weeks 5 and 7, respectively.

Although this is not a graded assignment, the quality of the research paper proposal and outline will factor into the overall research paper grade.