Module: Research in Security (research)

This is a course module on reviewing and applying security research. Its aim is to introduce the students to the research in the field: how it is presented, what is good research, and how to apply it in development of new technologies.

The module is part of the Open Security Education project and the maintainer is Daniel Bosk. The latest release can be found under releases. You can safely link directly to the PDFs found there.

File Structure and Building

To build the PDFs, after cloning the repository you must clone its required submodules:

$ git submodule update --recursive --init

Then you can go into the directory of the desired document and run make. The source files are structured as follows:

• review contains a seminar assignment in which the students review and present papers for each other.
• prestudy contains a project assignment where the students should dig deeper into a problem related to the security field. This could be used as a pre-study for a thesis topic.
• devel contains a project assignment where the students should develop a design for a solution to a problem. It should be both secure and usable.
  It should use the state-of-the-art techniques for privacy, security and usability.

In each directory the files are structured as follows:

• <name>.tex contains the main instruction.
• aims.tex is an itemized list of the intended learning outcomes, as such it can be included in another document summarizing the list of intended learning outcomes.
• abstract.tex covers the required reading instructions, thus you can include these in a study guide containing all reading instructions for the course.
• <name>.bib contains the bibliography entries, thus this file can be included along with the reading instructions.

To contribute, please fork the repository, make your changes, commit them and then create a pull request in the original repository.