Course

COM-301: Computer security and privacy

Summary

This is an introductory course to computer security and privacy. Its goal is to provide students with means to reason about security and privacy problems, and provide them with tools to confront them.

Lectures

Instructor

Thomas Emile Bourgeat

Teaching & PhD PhD Students Neelu Shivprakash Kalani, Jiawei Lin, Alexandre Pinazza, Jiacheng Ma, Martina Camaioni, Guokai Chen, Mohammadarman Soleimani Courses Computer security and privacy COM-301 This is an introductory course to computer security and privacy. Its goal is to provide students with means to reason about security and privacy problems, and provide them with tools to confront them. Constructive Computer Architecture CS-629 Beginning with a basic pipeline proc

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Summary

Lectures

Instructor

Thomas Emile Bourgeat

Official source

https://edu.epfl.ch/coursebook/en/computer-security-and-privacy-COM-301

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/COM-301

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Lectures in this course (60)

Computer Security: Basics and Vocabulary

Introduces computer security basics, properties, policy, threat modeling, and key vocabulary for adversarial thinking.

Basics - Security Engineering Concepts

Covers security mechanisms, defense in depth, and methods to show systems are secure.

Principles I: Economy of Mechanism & Fail-safe Defaults

Discusses the 'economy of mechanism' and 'fail-safe default' principles in computer security.

Principles II: Complete Mediation, Open Design, Separation of Privilege

Discusses the 'complete mediation', 'open design', and 'separation of privilege' principles to enhance system security.

Security Principles: Least Privilege, Common Mechanism, Acceptability

Explores security principles like least privilege, common mechanism, and user acceptability to enhance system protection.

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