After successful completion of the course, students are able to summarize and present selected research papers from the most important security conferences from the past years. They are aware of ethics issues raised by security research and are able to identify and address potential ethics issues in their own research. They further know the importance of reproducibility and challenges in artifact evaluations, including being able to reproduce the work practically (as far as possible).
Lectures on current research topics in information security published at the top security conferences (IEEE S&P, NDSS, ACM CCS, USENIX Security with artifact evaluation as lab assignments. Recommended for PhD students who focus on security to gain an overview of research results outside of their immediate area of research.
ECTS Breakdown (6 ECTS = 150 hours)
Lectures (20h)Self-studies (60h)Artifact Evaluation (60h)Final Presentations (10h)
Presentation of results at the end of the semester.
You should have completed Advanced Internet Security and/or Systems and Application Security. If you are a PhD student with a focus on security you can take this class.
