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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Usable Security by University of Maryland, College Park

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About the Course

This course focuses on how to design and build secure systems with a human-centric focus. We will look at basic principles of human-computer interaction, and apply these insights to the design of secure systems with the goal of developing security measures that respect human performance and their goals within a system....

Top reviews

IR

Jun 20, 2016

I like how in depth this gets. it explains it very well an in ways for people who are starting off in this field to get a basic understanding in exactly what we are learning. very well put together!

DG

Jun 28, 2016

Despite not being very fond of areas such as human-computer interaction, I found this course to be well-presented and useful. Definitely a necessity for anyone planning on building secure software.

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By Iwan S

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Nov 3, 2019

Attend this course is helping me to understand how to make design system better, i learn in user's perspective view not only as designer.

By Deleted A

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Dec 10, 2018

Really helped me understand usability by design and how to incorporate usability as part of security design. This is a recommended course

By Jessenth E

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Jun 28, 2021

Absolutely brilliant. Well crafted and paced and always keeps the student hooked with interactive sessions and everything. Total blast.

By Kyle S

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Feb 13, 2017

Great class. Ms. Golbeck is very clear and the pacing is great. I like that you can skip ahead to the next week if you have the time.

By Roderick V

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Nov 6, 2020

Thank you for the Chance of Learning Usable Security. It helps me a lot in Designing systems with these topics i learned. Thank u.

By Shashank V

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Sep 23, 2020

Awesome information and real world scenarios with perfect understandable examples , but these are only theories need to practice.

By Mohammad Y

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Aug 25, 2020

I learned a lot from this course, the materials were not very complicated and the additional reading materials were very helpful.

By Muhammad M

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Mar 16, 2020

One of the best online courses I have ever studied. Perfect depth,clear voice and high rate of understanding..Excellecnt Course.

By Kasuntha M

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Feb 1, 2021

Great course to learn about Usable Security. I highly recommend this course. Thank you for offering this valuable course to me.

By SOUVIK S

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Nov 15, 2020

I thank Coursera team & Usable security team for making this course simple and understandable and available for us. Thank you.

By Gad S

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Nov 2, 2020

Good reading materials, wonderful video, tailored to fit the course description. not too much information and a lot to learn.

By rahul b

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Jul 11, 2016

Its level increases gradually, the lectures have been explained in a lucid manner and there is a lot to gain from this course

By Nicholas K

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Oct 24, 2019

This course was had me engaged with the facets of Usability Fundamentals. The course was clear and very informative as well.

By karthik s

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Jun 1, 2016

The concepts are explained in best way so that even the layman can understand it and use it in his daily life and be secured

By Anila B

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Sep 29, 2022

The basics of cyber security has been well explained by the professor. Many thanks for building up my foundation so strong.

By sai s

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Nov 17, 2018

I learnt lot of things related to data ,security , privacy . Now I have a clear idea to develop a new software from scratch

By Elliott K

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Jan 14, 2017

The course was pretty good, I certainly learned a lot, but more hands on material would have been nice (Interactive).

Thanks

By JAI K S 1

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Jul 6, 2021

this is great many new things you learn from this course and every material you need to complete this course they provided

By Carlos A

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Dec 1, 2019

MUy bueno, enseñan loq eu uno debe tener en cuenta a la hora de diseñar sistemas de seguridad enfocados en la usabilidad

By Keshav P

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Sep 28, 2018

Course content was up to the mark. i have learned a lot about how to make system more usable without sacrificing security.

By Jaskaran S

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Aug 29, 2018

Excellent teachings. Great videos. Easily understandable and very comprehensive. Got to learn so much through this course.

By Christopher N

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May 14, 2022

Really excellent course on usable security. I learned a lot, and it gave me food for thought in designing secure systems.

By Joseph R

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Aug 26, 2021

I never got bored listening to this instructor nice lecture voice . She laid out information that was very easy to learn.

By abraham

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Nov 26, 2020

This was really a nice course. It has help me improved my knowledge on to deal with employee when it comes to security.

By John M

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Dec 14, 2017

Overall I really liked this course and it was laid out well. I will be using several learned items within my workplace