Advanced Cybersecurity

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Description A course in performing academic research in security and privacy. Students will get an opportunity to engage with published research through reading impactful research papers in the field and writing review-style paper summaries of their readings. Students will also present these papers to the class, and lead discussions about the papers’ merits. Concurrently with reading and evaluating research, groups of students will work on a novel security research project on a topic of their choosing. The course will culminate in a research symposium, with groups presenting their research findings to the class. Description This course provides a comprehensive overview of advanced topics in cybersecurity. Students will get an opportunity to engage with published research through reading and discussion. The course will cover both classic papers and recent results in systems security, network security, applied cryptography, and privacy. Concurrently with reading and evaluating research, groups of students will work on a novel cybersecurity research project on a topic of their choosing. The course will culminate in a research symposium, with groups presenting their findings to the class. This course requires knowledge of systems security, network security, applied cryptography, and/or privacy as covered in by an introductory course in one or more of these areas.