Homeland Security Courses

USENIX

More than Smart Speakers - Security and Privacy Perceptions of Smart Home Personal Assistants

Explores users' perceptions of security and privacy in smart home assistants, revealing incomplete mental models and limited understanding of data handling, leading to inadequate threat models and coping strategies.

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

USENIX

Computer Security and Privacy in the Interactions Between Victim Service Providers and Human Trafficking Survivors

Exploring technology's role in victim service provider-survivor interactions, balancing trust-building and risk mitigation for human trafficking survivors' recovery and empowerment.

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

IEEE

Stack Overflow Considered Harmful - The Impact of Copy & Paste on Android Application Security

Explores the security implications of developers copying code from Stack Overflow into Android apps, revealing alarming rates of insecure snippet usage in popular applications.

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

IEEE

Prepose - Privacy, Security, and Reliability for Gesture-Based Programming

Explore a novel language and system for secure, private gesture recognition in sensor-based interfaces, addressing privacy concerns and security threats while ensuring fast performance.

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

IEEE

You Get Where You're Looking For - The Impact Of Information Sources On Code Security

Explores how developers' choice of information sources affects Android code security, comparing Stack Overflow, official documentation, and books. Highlights trade-offs between usability and security in programming resources.

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

IEEE

Multiple Handshakes Security of TLS 1.3 Candidates

Explores security aspects of TLS 1.3 candidates, focusing on multiple handshake protocols. Introduces a multi-level security model and proves the soundness of TLS 1.3 security design.

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

USENIX

Practical Kubernetes Security Learning using Kubernetes Goat

Explore Kubernetes security vulnerabilities using Kubernetes Goat, a "vulnerable by design" environment. Learn to assess and improve cloud-native infrastructure security posture through hands-on practice.

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

IEEE

Ethics in Security and Privacy Research Panel

Explore ethical considerations in security and privacy research through expert insights and discussions on best practices, challenges, and future directions.

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

IEEE

Birds of a Feather - A Hardware & Security Panel

Engaging panel discussion on hardware security and defense strategies, featuring industry experts debating apocalypse preparedness in the context of cybersecurity.

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

IEEE

LBM - A Security Framework for Peripherals within the Linux Kernel

Unified security framework for Linux kernel to protect against malicious peripherals, leveraging eBPF for efficient packet filtering across USB, Bluetooth, and NFC protocols.

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

IEEE

AI and Security - Lessons, Challenges, and Future Directions

Explore AI's impact on security, examining key lessons, current challenges, and future trends in this insightful keynote by Dawn Song at IEEE's Deep Learning and Security Workshop.

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

IEEE

Towards Security and Privacy for Multi-User Augmented Reality - Foundations with End Users

Exploring security and privacy challenges in multi-user augmented reality through a qualitative study with HoloLens, revealing unique concerns and design implications for immersive AR technologies.

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

IEEE

The Rise of the Citizen Developer - Assessing the Security Impact of Online App Generators

Assessing security risks of online app generators for citizen developers, revealing vulnerabilities in generated apps and their impact on the mobile ecosystem's overall health.

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

IEEE

The Correctness-Security Gap in Compiler Optimization

Explores how compiler optimizations can preserve functionality but violate security guarantees, proposing research to identify and mitigate security errors introduced during optimization.

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

IEEE

Micro-Policies - Formally Verified, Tag-Based Security Monitors

Explore formally verified tag-based security monitors for low-level policies. Learn about dynamic sealing, compartmentalization, control-flow integrity, and memory safety implementation.

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