| L Jean Camp |
Steve Myers | Ryan Henry |
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| Tadayoshi Kohno |
Shwetak N. Patel |
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Meeting these challenges requires a large, interdisciplinary
effort. A holistic approach to IoT security and privacy integrates
human-computer interaction, network security, cryptography, and
pervasive computing. The translation layer requires an undertsanding of people’s privacy
and security requirements and the ability to expresses these as cryptographically
enforced data controls. This embeds usability and social informatics
challenges, requiring understanding what
people want and presenting these in a manner people can
understand. The home environment is one of the most complex contexts
in which to consider IoT security and privacy, due in part to the
diversity of families involved as well as the knowledge and technical
support (or lack thereof) that one can assume in terms of computer
security and privacy. This includes cryptographic challanges in
aligning the cryptographic implementations to the requirements derived
from human contexts. There is the networking challenge of
communicating these. The ability to enforce these requirements on
devices and in their interactions is a complex challenge even with the
assumption of well-behaved devices.
Requires dataset or confirmation of data availability by third week
Requires human subjects training and certification by second week
Requires INFO 533 or equivalent
Requires programming ability appropriate for project
Requires programming ability appropriate for project
The primary assignment for this course is the preparation of an research plan in a team which addresses at least two dimensions of security and privacy IoT. There are 1000 potential points that you can earn in this course; 20% of the grades (200 points) are individually based and assess your class participation and contribution to group work; 60% (600 points) of your grade is determined by your group’s project; the other 20% (200 points) is determined by specific in-class activities.
We expect class discussion to be wide ranging. While we have readings for each class the discussion is not bound by those readings. Part of this class will be brainstorming. We may take a class period, for example, to evaluate a survey designed by one group before the group distributes. Or we may join up in pairs to go through an experimental protocol of one group. Alternatively we may discuss preliminary results which seem inscrutable to a team. After you begin, your project is a component of the course.
Many of the courses will begin with current affairs. The first few days the faculty will choose any current even to present for discussion. After that students will sign up to select a security event of the day. Unfortunately we can always count on a data breach. There are also policy events, technical breakthroughs, and new malware.
Individual Assignments include quizzes, in-class assignments, online assignments, and attendance. The individual statement of goals is included in the project because it is focused on the project outcome. These sum to 200 points across the semester.
In-class leadership includes the presentation of the hot topic, which is a current event associated with security, privacy, and impinging on the Internet of Things. That presentation is 50 points or five percent of the grade. This also includes the day that your team presents related work. We expect that presentation to include brainstorming with the entire class, if needed. The group leadership of the entire class is 150 points.
The Project consists of ten components from identification of your individual goals for the class, through group development of an abstract, then reification of the abstract to a researchable question. Finally the group will come together and present the finding, both in class as a set of appropriate documents. All of these steps are part of the project grade because each contributes uniquely to the final deliverable.
60 points: Individual Statement of Goals
50 points: Extended Abstract Including Method
50 points: Revised Abstract & Outline
70 points: Initial Research Results
70 points: Research Progress Documentation
60 points: Initial Completed Report
70 points: Final Completed Report
50 points: Final Presentation
20 points: Peer Review of peer presentations
100 points: Turn in final plan and all slides
Students with successful, accepted submissions to an approved conference as a poster will receive an "A" on the presentation component, even if this requires a change from the initial grade. If you complete the presentation and believe your grade is incorrect, then polish the work and submit it. Given that the goal of this is effective presentation; you will receive an "A" grade. The School provides travel funds for graduate students with publications, so you should be able to present.
Due dates for assignments are firm. The group will be subject to 10 late points for each day that an assignment is late.
One Late Pass is available for your group this semester. Because of the fast pace of the course, your group may use one late pass, and have one additional week to turn in one assignment.
Attendance is expected and will be monitored. You may miss two classes without penalty. More than 5 absences will result in an automatic F. You may also be excused for religious holidays. Please let us know by the first week of class if you are intending to miss for any religious holidays.
Assignments should be professional in appearance and should follow current APA format. Please seek help from the 5th edition of the APA Manual or the campus Writing Center.
Academic and personal misconduct by students is defined and will be dealt with according to the newly revised procedures in the CODE OF STUDENT ETHICS. Be sure to review cheating and plagiarism. Plagiarism constitutes using others’ ideas, words or images without properly giving credit to those sources. If you turn in any work with your name affixed to it, I assume that work is your own and that all sources are indicated and documented in the text (with quotations and/or citations). Any written work that appears to be plagiarized will be submitted to Turnitin.com.
Video and audio recording of the course is not allowed. The class time includes discussion. Asking a question is difficult for some people, being recorded increases the burden of asking. I expect the class participants, as graduate students, to be able to answer the questions and engage fully in classroom exercises. This means that there will be moments of disagreement, and even intellectual struggle or conflict. Experience indicates and research does not contradict the assertion that recording hinders discussion and the education that requires it. A violation of this class policy will be treated as a violation of academic integrity.
If you have a particular need to record you may do so unobtrusively and under a confidentiality agreement that respects the expectations of other students. Please talk to me privately about this.
The class has a set of basic topics, and each topic will be explored and examined according to the interest of the students. Thus, if the class wants to focus an additional day on a topic, other topics can be compressed. What is important is to meet the goals of the class.