CS 261: Computer Security
Spring, 2011


DateSyllabusNote
Jan 19 Overview, Basic Concepts in Security, Why Security is Hard
N/A

Jan 26 Access Control and Capabilities (Guest lecturer Mark S. Miller, Slides)
N/A

Project groups formed
Feb 02 Reference Monitor and Sandbox (Guest lecturer Ăšlfar Erlingsson)
N/A

Feb 09 Trusted Computing/Trusted Hardware
N/A

Project proposal due
Feb 16 Information flow
N/A
Feb 23 Privilege Separation
N/A
Mar 02 Web Security(I) Basics (Guest lecturer Adam Barth)
N/A

Mar 09 Web Security(II) Authentication and protocol analysis (Guest lecturer Dirk Balfanz)
Presentation: Swapnil Ralhan, Veer Bawa

Mar 16 Web Security(III) Vulnerability Analysis
Presentation: William Li

Mar 23 Spring Break: No Lecture
Mar 30 Web Security(IV) Web frameworks, misc
Presentation: Justin Samuel, Albert Kim

Project milestone
Apr 06 Mobile Security
Presentation: Paul Pearce, Gabe Nunez

Apr 13 Social Network Security, misc
Presentation: Conor Hugles, Richard Shin

Apr 20 Usability, misc
Presentation: Drew Fisher, Edward Wu

Apr 27 Project Presentation