CSE773

Usable Security and Privacy
Post-graduate Program

CSE773: Usable Security and Privacy

Offered: Fall 2025 (current)

Usability for security, introduction to HCI design methodologies, ethical issues and IRB, passwords, secondary authentication, privacy tools, security warnings, smartphone apps, privacy policies and notices, usable encryption, browser privacy and security, SSL and PKIs, social networks and privacy, trust and mental models, privacy in the context of Bangladesh

Course Objectives

The core objectives of this course are to:
Understand the concept of usability for security and realize the tradeoff between usability and security
Learn the basic methodologies of conducting security experiments involving end users
Identify the user susceptibilities that are associated with managing different types of security and privacy systems and tools
Understand the principle of designing usable security and privacy systems and tools
Recognize that security and privacy decisions in today’s digitalized world are entangled with various psychological and social arguments

List of Books

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Course Outcome

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Course Coordinator

Dr. Md Sadek Ferdous


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