This course focuses on how to design and build secure systems with a human-centric focus. We will look at basic principles of human-computer interaction, and apply these insights to the design of secure systems with the goal of developing security measures that respect human performance and their goals within a system.
Usable Security
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11 hours to complete
3 weeks at 3 hours a week
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There are 7 modules in this course
Fundamentals of Human-Computer Interaction: users, usability, tasks, and cognitive models
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6 videos4 readings1 assignment1 peer review
Design: design methodology, prototyping, cybersecurity case study
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5 videos1 reading1 assignment
Evaluation: usability studies, A/B testing, quantitative and qualitative evaluation, cybersecurity case study
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6 videos1 reading1 assignment
Strategies for Secure Interaction Design: authority, guidelines for interface design
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5 videos1 reading1 assignment
Usable Authentication: authentication mechanisms, biometrics, two-factor authentication
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6 videos1 reading1 assignment
Usable Privacy: privacy settings, personal data sharing, data inference
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5 videos1 reading1 assignment
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1 assignment
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5
Reviewed on Aug 18, 2021
Great course with enriching materials to support. It has given me a headstart to understand more concepts. Thank you Professor Jennifer for your structured, easy to understand course structure.
DG
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Reviewed on Jun 28, 2016
Despite not being very fond of areas such as human-computer interaction, I found this course to be well-presented and useful. Definitely a necessity for anyone planning on building secure software.
CK
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Reviewed on May 23, 2019
it was really amazing class lecture and extraordinary learning mam from you looking aspioiusly to intern from you mam glad to be your student and hearty congratulations to you on being the top.
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