Fast Track Modules

The initial module draft is due on December 1, 2006 with the final iteration due on January 5, 2007. The material should be available via Trust Academy Online (TAO), see the Overview and Educator's Guide.

Topic: Sensor Networks

Working Title: Embedded System Security
Project Description: Concepts information system security, security aspects of embedded systems, model-based security co-design, analysis of security properties, hands-on exercise with a prototype tool, impact of security on system functionality and performance.
Deliverables: Courseware (slides, assessment, modeling and analysis tool for exercises)
Contact: Gabor Karsai (Vanderbilt)

Working Title: Model-Based Approach to Privacy and Security in Patient Portals Content
Project Description: University, in which smartphones are used as the means by which users exercise their authority to access both physical and virtual resources. Deliverables: Presentation slides, homework/exam problems on access control.
Contact: Mike Reiter (CMU)

Working Title: Phishing and online identity theft
Project Description: This lecture describes the phishing problem, which involves deceptive email and malicious web sites that steal user passwords, and examines several current defenses against phishing attacks. The defenses developed by TRUST researchers include browser extensions that detect malicious web sites, create customized "hashed" passwords, leverage user-chosen images to identify servers, and modify browser cache and history behavior to prevent targeted phishing attacks. The lecturer will also describe the sobering results of user studies that examine why users are fooled by phishing, and consider what muct be done in the future to help non-technical computer users understand the threats they face in today's networked computing environment.
Deliverables: Not defined
Contact: John C Mitchell (Stanford)