Konstantin Beznosov

Faculty

Usable security, design of security mechanisms, distributed systems, security, access control, engineering secure software.

Konstantin (Kosta) Beznosov is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, where he directs the Laboratory for Education and Research in Secure Systems Engineering. His research interests are usable security, distributed systems security, secure software engineering, and access control. Prior UBC, he was a Security Architect at Hitachi Computer Products (America) and Concept Five. Besides many academic papers on security engineering in distributed systems, he is also a co-author of “Enterprise Security with EJB and CORBA” and “Mastering Web Services Security” books, as well as XACML and several CORBA security specifications. He has served on program committees and/or helped to organize SOUPS, CCS, NSPW, NDSS, ACSAC, SACMAT, CHIMIT. Prof. Beznosov is an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC) and International Journal of Secure Software Engineering (IJSSE).

EECE 310	Software Engineering Engineering practices for the development of non-trivial software-intensive systems including specification, software design, implementation, verification and validation. Iterative development. Recognized standards, guidelines and models.
EECE 412	Introduction to Computer Security Security risks, threats, and vulnerabilities from technical perspectives; confidentiality, integrity, and hybrid policies; cryptography, access control, assurance, accountability, and engineering of secure systems.
EECE 571B	Computer Security EECE 571B “Computer Security” is a lecture-based graduate course for those grad students who just want to familiarize themselves with the research domain of computer security, without an expectations that they either already have background in the subject or want to do research related to security.

2011	Heuristics for Evaluating IT Security Management Tools Conference Paper \| Proceedings of Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
2011	What Makes Users Refuse Web Single Sign-On? An Empirical Investigation of {OpenID} Conference Paper \| Proceedings of Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
2011	On the Challenges in Usable Security Lab Studies: Lessons Learned from Replicating a Study on SSL Warnings Conference Paper \| Proceedings of Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
2011	Heuristics for Evaluating IT Security Management Tools Conference Paper \| Proceedings of Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
2011	Improving Malicious URL Re-Evaluation Scheduling through an Empirical Study of Malware Download Centers Conference Proceedings \| Joint WICOW/AIRWeb Workshop on Web Quality (WebQuality 2011)
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