Human Factors in Cryptography and Security

Garant předmětu:

Róbert Lórencz, Ivana Trummová

Lecturer:

Ivana Trummová

Tutor:

Ivana Trummová

Supervisor:

Department of Information Security

Synopsis:

This course is for students interested not only in technical scope of computer science, but also in making products usable - for users and for developers. Students of this course can use their gained knowledge to design, plan and analyse their own projects in the context of human-centered security.

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

1.Introduction and key concepts in Human-Centered Security

2.Secure email, E2EE

3.Mental models, qualitative and quantitative research

4.Ethical aspects

5.eVoting

6.Usable Cryptography

7.Cryptography standards

8.Secure messaging apps

9.Passwords, passwordless authentication

10.Human-oriented programming

11.Phishing

12.Privacy Tools - TOR, VPN

13.Projects presentation

Syllabus of tutorials:

to be done

Study Objective:

Study materials:

Bossomaier, Terry, Steven D'Alessandro, and Roger Bradbury. Human dimensions of cybersecurity. CRC Press, 2019.

Sasse, M. Angela, and Ivan Flechais. „Usable security: Why do we need it? How do we get it?.“ O'Reilly, 2005. 13-30.

Sasse, Martina Angela, Sacha Brostoff, and Dirk Weirich. „Transforming the ‘weakest link’—a human/computer interaction approach to usable and effective security.“ BT technology journal 19.3 (2001): 122-131.

Anne Adams and Martina Angela Sasse. 1999. Users are not the enemy. Commun. ACM 42, 12 (Dec. 1999), 40–46. https://doi.org/10.1145/322796.322806

Note:

Further information:

https://courses.fit.cvut.cz/BIE-LFB/

Time-table for winter semester 2024/2025:

Time-table is not available yet

Time-table for summer semester 2024/2025:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Bachelor specialization, Computer Engineering, 2021 (elective course)
• Bachelor specialization, Information Security, 2021 (elective course)
• Bachelor specialization, Software Engineering, 2021 (elective course)
• Bachelor specialization, Computer Science, 2021 (elective course)
• Bachelor specialization, Computer Networks and Internet, 2021 (elective course)
• Bachelor specialization Computer Systems and Virtualization, 2021 (elective course)
• Study plan for Ukrainian refugees (elective course)