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Technology increasingly permeates every aspect of our lives, including communication, finance and health. The security of the computer systems that enable these services has become a critical issue. This course will cover basic principles of computer security and security engineering. It will introduce fundamental computer security concepts, principles, and techniques. It will also cover notions of real-world cryptography, the mathematical building blocks that underlie any digital security construction. This course will focus on security from an attacker’s perspective (threat modeling) and the defender’s perspective (building and deploying secure systems). Specific topics will include operating system security, network security, web security, applied cryptography, security economics and security psychology. Course projects will focus both on writing secure code and exploiting insecure code.