Teaching Computer Security

TL;DR: This paper describes a laboratory based capstone course in computer security for undergraduates that emphasizes defensive tools and techniques at the expense of attacks, and takes a network centered view where student teams set up and configure entire networks.

TL;DR: The proposed requirements for cybersecurity challenges geared towards software developers in an industrial environment are based on systematic literature review, interviews with security experts from the industry and semi-structured evaluation of participant feedback.

TL;DR: NEMESIS, a scenario generation framework for education on system and network security, which is based on virtualization technologies and has been designed to be open, distributed, modular, scalable and flexible is presented.

TL;DR: The rationale, design and implementation of a Reconfigurable Attack-Defend Instructional Computing Laboratory (RADICL) is described, which instructs and develops not only student’s abilities to secure a system, but also their ability to attack a system.

TL;DR: The authors describe computer science in a way that emphasizes fundamental questions and significant accomplishments, and propose a teaching paradigm for computer science that conforms to traditional scientific standards, emphasizes the development of competence in the field, and harmoniously integrates theory, experimentation, and design.

TL;DR: This paper presents a meta-modelling architecture suitable for quantum cryptography that combines public-key and secret-key systems and shows the architecture’s need for future generations of quantum computers.

TL;DR: This paper explores various ways of using randomization in encryption by increasing the apparent size of the message space, eliminating the threat of chosen plaintext attacks, and improving the a priori statistics for the inputs to the encryption algorithms.