Guest Lecture - Computer Security

 

On Wednesday afternoon, Deian Stefan was our guest speaker. He is a professor in the CSE department at UCSD. His insights on cybersecurity helped us relate what security issues in the physical world to that of the cyber world. There are two main types of security – defensive and offensive. He spoke about the analysis and protection of computer systems in an adversarial setting. The main focus was the protection on confidentiality, integrity, and availability of a system against an adversary. A couple of the big tips we walked away with were use password managers (so you don’t use the same password for everything and they are complex) and don’t install too many extensions.