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Usable Security (Coursera)

Offered by University of Maryland, College Park,

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.

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Course 1 of 5 in the Cybersecurity Specialization.

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
WEEK 7: Final Exam

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