Usable Security

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.

• Week 1
• Fundamentals of Human-Computer Interaction: users, usability, tasks, and cognitive models
• Week 2
• Design: design methodology, prototyping, cybersecurity case study
• Week 3
• Evaluation: usability studies, A/B testing, quantitative and qualitative evaluation, cybersecurity case study
• Week 4
• Strategies for Secure Interaction Design: authority, guidelines for interface design
• Week 5
• Usable Authentication: authentication mechanisms, biometrics, two-factor authentication
• Week 6
• Usable Privacy: privacy settings, personal data sharing, data inference
• Final Exam