T-110.5220 Information Security and Usability P (3 cr)
Lectures
The course is lectured bi-weekly in the beginning of period III. Attending the lectures is voluntary. These lectures will provide the background for understanding usable security as a field and what kind of work is currently ongoing in this area, on basis of which the student can select a topic to work an essay on. The essays deadline is May 31, 2012.
The responsible lecturer is Kristiina Karvonen.
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| 20 Jan 12 | 3 | Sat | 14.15-15.45 | T5 | Introduction to the course and to the field | |||||||
| The first meeting will cover 1) introduction to the course practicalities and 2) introduction to the field of usable security | ||||||||||||
| 03 Feb 12 | 5 | Sat | 14.15-15.45 | T5 | Usable Security: The Classics | |||||||
| This lecture will consist of a presentation of three prominent and early papers in the area of usable security. It will be beneficial to read the papers in advance. The papers (accessible from campus network) are: 1. Why Johnny Can't Encrypt: A Usability Evaluation of PGP 5.0 Alma Whitten, Carnegie Mellon University; and J. D. Tygar University of California, Berkeley. USENIX Security Symposium 99 (http://usenix.org/events/sec99/whitten.html) 2. Anne Adams and Martina Angela Sasse. 1999. Users are not the enemy. Commun. ACM 42, 12 (December 1999), 40-46. (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=322806) 3. Nathaniel S. Good and Aaron Krekelberg. 2003. Usability and privacy: a study of Kazaa P2P file-sharing. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '03). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 137-144. (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=642636) | ||||||||||||
| 02 Mar 12 | 9 | Sat | 14.15-15.45 | Blog | Recent work in usable security | |||||||
| This lecture is replaced with blog report from Usable Security Workshop 2012 (http://infosecon.net/usec12/index.php)and will consist of short analyses of the papers presented in this workshop. The papers are available for donwloading at http://infosecon.net/usec12/program.html There is NO physical meeting on March 2, 2012 due to this workshop; there will be discussion session on March 9, 2012 14-16 in T5 instead. | ||||||||||||
| 09 Mar 12 | 10 | Sat | 14.00-16.00 | T5 | Disucssion on essay topics | |||||||
| This lecture will be a discussion session about the essay topics and the usable security workshop. | ||||||||||||
| 16 Mar 12 | 11 | Sat | 00.00-23.59 | Deadline for choosing essay topic | ||||||||
| March 2, 2012 will be the deadline for choosing an essay topic for the course. The topics are available at course pages at Noppa. Student can also suggest own topic. | ||||||||||||
| 20 Apr 12 | 16 | Sat | 00.00-23.59 | Deadline for first draft of course essay | ||||||||
| April 6, 2012 is the deadline for returning a first draft of course essay via email to the teacher. | ||||||||||||
| 31 May 12 | 22 | Fri | 00.00-23.59 | Deadline for final version of essay | ||||||||