Materials

The slides (pdf) from lecture.

• Intro to course staff
• Cybersecurity involves the study of four categories of failures and how to avoid them
  • Failure of operation (mostly human error in usage)
  • Failure of implementation (programming errors like buffer overflows)
  • Failure of design (a more fundamental error during the design process)
  • Failure of abstraction (incorrect modelling of the adversary)
• Examples of recent failures from each category
• Discussion of course structure and policies