Usable Security
Offered By: University of Maryland, College Park via Coursera
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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