Class Schedule

The schedule will be populated as the semester progresses. Find the tentative syllabus here.

Date Topics Readings Other Activities/Notes
01/17 Course Introduction [slides] 1. Project Proposal assigned; due on 02/07
2. Spring semester add/drop ends
01/24 Smart home platform security (and a visit to the past) [slides] [READ] Security Analysis of Emerging Smart Home Applications [link]
[REVIEW] A Study of Data Store-based Home Automation [link]
01/31 1. Project Discussions
2. IoT mobile App Security Analysis [slides]
[REVIEW] Understanding IoT Security from a Market-Scale Perspective [link]
02/07 Detecting and preventing security and safety issues in IoT Apps [slides] [REVIEW] Soteria: Automated IoT Safety and Security Analysis [link]
[READ] IoTGuard: Dynamic Enforcement of Security and Safety Policy in Commodity IoT [link]
1. Project Proposal Due
2. Related work assigned; due 02/28
02/14 Security Evaluation of IoT Deployments [slides] [REVIEW] SoK: Security Evaluation of Home-Based IoT Deployments [link]
02/21 Data leaks in IoT apps [slides] [REVIEW] Sensitive Information Tracking in Commodity IoT [link]
[READ] A Study of Android Application Security [link]
02/28 Provenance tracking and contextual integrity in IoT [REVIEW] Fear and Logging in the Internet of Things [link]
[READ] ContexIoT: Towards Providing Contextual Integrity to Appified IoT Platforms [link]
1. Related Work Due
2. Research plan assigned; due 03/28
03/07 Access Control Enhancements for Integrity [REVIEW] Practical Integrity Validation in the Smart Home with HomeEndorser [link]
[READ] Situational Access Control in the Internet of Things [link]
03/14 Multi-user Smart Home Access Control [REVIEW] Understanding and Improving Security and Privacy in Multi-User Smart Homes: A Design Exploration and In-Home User Study [link]
[READ] Rethinking Access Control and Authentication for the Home Internet of Things (IoT) [link]
03/21 Spring break - NO CLASS
03/28 Beyond IoT Apps – Synthetic Event Generation [REVIEW] Towards a Natural Perspective of Smart Homes for Practical Security and Safety Analyses [link] 1. Research plan due
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