design principles

Teaching with Design Principles

Design principles help students learn the essentials of technical design tasks. Students apply simple-sounding rules to…
Self-teaching a little security thinking

There’s a particular mindset we call security thinking. I’ve also seen it called ‘reasoned paranoia.’ The…
Ross Anderson and another edition of Security Engineering

Every cybersecurity professional knows – and almost certainly owns – this book. Ross Anderson published the…
The Six Types of Cyber-Risks

My textbook lists categories of cyber-attacks that focus on an attack’s lasting impact: how does it affect the…
The Apple case isn’t “privacy” versus “safety”

The current fight is about whether we will impose a technological infrastructure which will be exceptionally…
Example of KISS

Ok, this is a backwards observation. One of my hot buttons is to spot “cyber security…
Security Design Principles

This is an extended, less-edited version of an article appearing in IEEE Security and Privacy in December 2012. This…
GUIs: Control, Conveyance, Continuity, and Context

I’m a sucker for basic principles distilled into pithy prescriptions. A freelance writer, Brian Boyko, has…