Dr. Durant: CS-4920 Presentations

Overview

• Purpose: Educate the audience about a security topic that you find interesting
• Scope
  • In many cases, most information may come from a single reference
  • More references may be needed depending upon your topic
  • Demos are optional
• Presented during weeks 8 through 10
• Duration: 8-10 minutes times size of group
• You may work alone or with a partner. Groups of 3 or 4 are allowed if the proposed scope is sufficient.
• The professor will allow questions as time permits. You are evaluated both on how well your presentation anticipates questions (not leaving key facts out) and, time permitting, how you answer any questions.
• Grading will be based on this rubric.

Due Dates and Grading Breakdown

• 5%: Emailed topic selection and 1 paragraph overview: Friday of week 2
• 15%: Emailed outline (1-2 pages): Friday of week 4
• 30%: Emailed slides or presentation materials: Friday of week 7
• 50%: Presentation: Weeks 8 through 10

2015 Schedule of presenters

2014 Schedule of presenters

2012 Schedule of presenters

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2008 Schedule of presenters

2007 Schedule of presenters

2006 Schedule of presenters

Topic Suggestions

• Textbook topics not covered (e.g., Microsoft Windows Security)
• Best practices (e.g., 3-legged firewall use)
• Topic from class in more depth
• Topics from Security Engineering
• Topics from CERT's Podcast Series
• Security policies
• RFID (VeriGuard, etc.)
• Papers from
  • IEEE Security and Privacy: http://www.computer.org/portal/site/security/
  • IEEE Trans. Dependable and Secure Computing: http://www.computer.org/tdsc/
  • IEEE Internet Computing: http://www.computer.org/portal/site/internet/
• Cryptanalysis: theory and examples (see, e.g., Hacking secret ciphers with Python)