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Usable Security

Offered By: University of Maryland, College Park via Coursera

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Computer Science Courses Cybersecurity Courses Prototyping Courses

Course Description

Overview

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.

Syllabus

  • 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

Taught by

Jennifer Golbeck

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