CSE 484 / CSE M 584: Computer Security (Spring 2015)


Course Location and Time


Course Staff

Email everyone: cse484-tas@cs.washington.edu
Anonymous feedback: https://catalyst.uw.edu/umail/form/franzi/4524

Course evaluation link: https://uw.iasystem.org/survey/146006


Office Hours

Note: All TA office hours will be held in CSE 003D starting on May 28 through the end of the quarter.


Required Textbook

Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs to Know, Daswani, Kern, and Kesavan, ISBN 1-59059-784-2

You can find it online through the UW Libraries here.


Topics

In this course, we will cover topics including: the "security mindset", threat modeling, software security, cryptography, malware, web security, web privacy, smartphone security, authentication, usable security, anonymity, physical security, and security for emerging technologies.

For more details, see the course schedule.


Prerequisites

(CSE 326 or CSE 332) and (CSE 351 or CSE 378)

You should have maturity in both the mathematics of computer science and in the engineering of computer systems. This means that you should: have a good understanding of data structures and algorithms; be comfortable writing programs from scratch in C and Java; be comfortable writing and debugging assembly code; and be comfortable in a command-line Unix development environment (gdb, gcc, etc). You should also have a good understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, and computer networks. Most importantly, you should be eager to challenge yourself and learn more!