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.
Usable Security
Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
4.6
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at 10 hours a week
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Skills you'll gain
- Cybersecurity
- Security Engineering
- User Interface (UI) Design
- Information Privacy
- User Centered Design
- Design
- Human Factors
- Threat Modeling
- Personally Identifiable Information
- Multi-Factor Authentication
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Usability Testing
- Authentications
- Usability
- Interaction Design
- Human Computer Interaction
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There are 7 modules in this course
Fundamentals of Human-Computer Interaction: users, usability, tasks, and cognitive models
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6 videos4 readings1 assignment1 peer review
Design: design methodology, prototyping, cybersecurity case study
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5 videos1 reading1 assignment
Evaluation: usability studies, A/B testing, quantitative and qualitative evaluation, cybersecurity case study
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6 videos1 reading1 assignment
Strategies for Secure Interaction Design: authority, guidelines for interface design
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5 videos1 reading1 assignment
Usable Authentication: authentication mechanisms, biometrics, two-factor authentication
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6 videos1 reading1 assignment
Usable Privacy: privacy settings, personal data sharing, data inference
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5 videos1 reading1 assignment
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1 assignment
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VM
5
Reviewed on Apr 28, 2020
This course has much detailed information about the topic. The instructor went to a large extent to make us learn the topic well. Overall the course is recommended. It is good course.
AU
5
Reviewed on Mar 23, 2018
Usable Security is a one of the finest courses which explains what its description states.I gained a lot of experience with usablity and will try to implement the same in my future security features.
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4
Reviewed on Sep 22, 2019
it's a great course but i feel like it's just not for me it's good to know that there is something called usable security i never hear of it and for someone like to know new stuff its great
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