USENIX Enigma Conference Courses

Data as a Social Science: Cultural Elements in Privacy and Security

Explore cultural dimensions of privacy and security in global tech, unlocking innovation through understanding diverse perspectives on trust, timing, and data management.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Eyes in Your Child's Bedroom - Exploiting Child Data Risks with Smart Toys

Explores vulnerabilities in smart toys, demonstrating potential security risks and privacy breaches. Offers mitigation strategies for parents and manufacturers to protect children's data and ensure safer IoT devices.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

When the Magic Wears Off - Flaws in Machine Learning for Security Evaluations

Explores biases in machine learning for malware classification, proposing constraints and metrics for realistic evaluation. Introduces TESSERACT framework to improve classifier performance and ensure fair comparisons.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Usage of Behavioral Biometric Technologies to Defend Against Bots

Explore frictionless authentication using behavioral biometrics to combat sophisticated bot attacks and account takeovers, with insights on implementation, machine learning, and creating a zero-trust environment.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Abusability Testing: Considering the Ways Your Technology Might Be Used

Explore abusability testing to anticipate potential misuse of technology, enhancing product safety and ethical design considerations.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Predicting Vulnerability Exploitation - How to Assess Cybersecurity Risks

Predicting vulnerability exploitation using data from 10 million hosts. Explores factors influencing hacker decisions and presents models to assess exploitation risk, aiding in cybersecurity and risk management.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Hardware Security Modules: The Ultimate Black Boxes - Challenges and Future Directions

Exploring Hardware Security Modules: their unique role, limitations, and evolving needs in modern cryptography. Discusses premises and cloud-based HSMs, workarounds, and future directions for enhanced security solutions.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Digital Authoritarianism, Data Protection, and the Battle for Information Control - USENIX Enigma 2019

Explores the rise of digital authoritarianism, its global impact, and strategies for democracies to counter it through a reimagined approach to information security and data protection.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Mobile App Privacy Analysis at Scale

Exploring privacy risks in mobile apps: automated analysis of 80,000+ Android apps reveals widespread tracking, data sharing, and potential regulatory violations. Discusses implications for developers, platforms, and regulators.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Insider Attack Resistance in the Android Ecosystem

Exploring insider attack threats in mobile ecosystems and Android's multi-level defense strategies, including hardware-level protections and system software transparency to enhance user security.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Physical OPSEC as a Metaphor for Infosec

Explore how physical operational security practices can enhance information security mindset, risk assessment skills, and decision-making in both professional and personal contexts.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Provable Security at AWS - Automated Reasoning for Cloud Security

Exploring AWS's provable security: Using automated reasoning to detect misconfigurations and provide absolute assurance in cloud security, protecting customers in an evolving threat landscape.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Mr. Lord Goes to Washington, or Applying Security Outside the Tech World

Insights on applying enterprise security practices to political organizations, addressing phishing, best practices implementation, and disinformation campaigns. Valuable for SMBs and tech product developers.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Crypto Crumple Zones - Protecting Encryption in a Time of Political Uncertainty

Exploring technical solutions for balancing encryption and government access, proposing "crypto crumple zones" to maximize privacy while allowing limited exceptional access in politically uncertain times.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Cryptographically Secure Data Analysis for Social Good

Secure multi-party computation enables analysis of sensitive salary data to calculate pay disparities while maintaining confidentiality, demonstrating potential for social impact in privacy-constrained contexts.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk