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Usable Security

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This course focuses on how to design and build secure systems with a human-centric focus. We will look at basic principles of human-computer interaction, and apply these insights to the design of secure systems with the goal of developing security measures that respect human performance and their goals within a system.
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Rating 4.4 based on 415 ratings
Length 8 weeks
Effort 7 weeks of study, 5-8 hours/week
Starts Jul 17 (40 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From University of Maryland, College Park via Coursera
Instructor Jennifer Golbeck
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Language English
Subjects Programming Engineering IT & Networking Science
Tags Computer Science Physical Science And Engineering Computer Security And Networks Research Methods

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great course

A really great course.

Great course!

The content is vast and really good that reading it again, not just for clearing the test, is re A great course simple and basic, perfect.

Thanks alot for this great course!

I will be using several learned items within my workplace Great course which gave me a lot of insights about usability of systems and its importance.

Great Course but the material needs updating a bit.

It was great course; It covers many topics that my universtity avoid in lectures and the usability is topic about of everyone talks about, but a very few actually care about it.

Otherwise great course!

gracias por todo lo aprendido Tough topic, great course!

Very useful course a really good course i gave 4 stars because there's some noise in some lectures and delays but the content is legendary!and its mostly about software engineering concept thanks for this great course <3 I love it, Jen you are perfect :) Dr. Jen Golbeck is an amazing instructor.

Great course, really... usable!

the best one Great course.

Great course, I loved the examples and video of practices throughout the learning!

Muy bueno el curso, mucha informacion util y con ejemplo de casos reales o faciles de aplicar en lo cotidiano Great course.

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very informative

very informative!

A very informative course!

This was grate overview of what is usable security and what are the approaches used today when it come to make software both usable and secure :-) Very informative course with videos which are just the right length, and are also full with actual real-life examples.

the best so farvery informative.

Very informative!

I have a better understanding of Usability + Security , the videos were clear, simple and detailed I have learn small about security and some basics about design, perhaps this training should be renamed to "design" instead security.... Great Course Very informative A rewarding experience because I have been able to learn very valuable information.

Course was very informative, well structured, specially instructor was very competent.

The course was clear and very informative as well.

Very informative course its been very helpful and theoritically detailed.Overall good for beginners the information provided in this course i believe is well balanced for an intro the world of data in information security Great course and the structure of the course is amazing.

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about usable security

Awesome course.. Good course to learn at beginner level about usable security.

I really enjoy learning about Usable Security G Excellent course and a good introduction to security which also cover real/usable security and an angle too rarely brought up in conjunction with safety around IT systems.

Hope to learn more about Usable Security and one reason is that the author is very engaging.

Learned a lot about usable security.

Excellent course filled with plenty of info to get you started thinking about usable security.

Nice course with more important info thanks alot Best course to learn about usable security, If you are familiar with Human Computer Interaction then easily can related the security issue in between Human and Machine.

Great course with a easy way yo learn about Usable Security.

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easy to understand

Excellent course, the teacher is great, she truly makes things easy to understand, it has very good support material.

Lessons are very clear and easy to understand.

I found this course informative, easy to understand and timely.

The instructor made it very easy to understand the topics and the reading recommended were of a great help.

very easy to learn and the videos and audio are both clear and easy to understand loved the course It is an interesting course and I employ people to go for the course Really a great experience !!

Easy to understand, and very useful introductory class.

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so much

I have learned so much things in this course that most of people don't take in consideration.

even though I work in IT security field, I learned so much from usable security it was an eye-opener.

amazing course Wonderful introduction to best possible usable security nice i love the course and the way of teaching providing such a information in that much of less time is so much great.

Thank you so much!

Got to learn so much through this course.

Thank you so much for enlightenment you offered.

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jennifer golbeck

Professor Jennifer Golbeck did an exceptional job in delivering information, especially in her TEDX lecture when she explained HCI and how easy it is to gather users data and make easy to anticipate personalities and what users likes Good course that covered very useful material.

Many thanks and kind regards to Dr. Jennifer Golbeck.

Very informative and an opener to certain aspect on cyber we normally tend to forget especially privacy policy I would love to work with Jennifer Golbeck in her lab for my P.h.D.

Miss Jennifer Golbeck is a great professor and I hope she achieve more in life.Thankyou Coursera and Miss Jennifer Golbeck The instruction is clear and well organized.

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other courses

It connects the technically detailed 'how' of the other courses (cryptography, software and hardware security) with the why.

I hope the other courses are not like this.I rated it one star for a couple of reasons.

I wasn't aware that if you audit the course you were not allowed to complete the quizzes as other courses offer this option.

The other courses in the specialisation are much more challenging and you learn a lot more.

I really enjoy the course and would looking forward for other courses in the specilization.

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final exam

The questions of the final exam do not have a clear answer (for instance: they think that a password with 8 random characters is hard to crack, but it would take only a few days with a brute force attack, and also they think that a user chosen 8 character password is more secure than a random one, which is wrong in my opinion).

The quiz exercises are a bit challenging, and the final exam has very good questions, which require careful and independent thinking.

Taking the examples literally might not be the best actionable route to completing a lot of the quizzes and final exam, its mostly theory on how to build sustainable and efficient systems while at the same time ensuring the security of them has the least effect on the usability of the information system or applications in mind.

Quizzes and the final exam were thought-provoking.

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software security

I took this course at the same time as "Software Security".

I really enjoyed Software Security, but Usable Security was horrible.

I would NOT have expected to have a weeks long course on software design and usability when my desire is to learn about software security.

I am now in the 3rd week of Software Security, the 2nd course in the Cybersecurity specialization, and am realizing that 2 stars was a generous assessment.

Based on the prerequisites of the Software Security course, the Usable Security course, in its current form, is too elementary to be appropriate for people who have the experience/knowledge required for the rest of the courses in this specialization.

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Assistant Sector Controller, Secure Interface $112k

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Rating 4.4 based on 415 ratings
Length 8 weeks
Effort 7 weeks of study, 5-8 hours/week
Starts Jul 17 (40 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From University of Maryland, College Park via Coursera
Instructor Jennifer Golbeck
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Programming Engineering IT & Networking Science
Tags Computer Science Physical Science And Engineering Computer Security And Networks Research Methods

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