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Cybersecurity provides a practical introduction to securing information in an increasingly connected world. Over four weeks, participants explore the principles and tools for protecting communication, systems, and data—from the foundations of cryptography and network security to real-world threats, vulnerabilities, and defenses. The course balances theory with applied practice, giving students the knowledge and skills to evaluate risks, implement safeguards, and understand the broader implications of digital security.
Tue, Thu, Mid-February to Mid-March 2026 — 9:00–10:30A EDT
Mon, Wed, Fri (local)
Local nodes set times
Radia designed the spanning tree algorithm that transformed Ethernet from the original limited-scalability, single-wire CSMA/CD, into a protocol that can handle large clouds. Later, she improved on spanning tree-based Ethernet by designing TRILL (TRansparent Interconnection of Lots of Links), which allows Ethernet to make optimal use of bandwidth. Her textbook Interconnections made a science out of the murky field of network protocols.
Systems researcher at Google
Ben Laurie is an English software engineer. Laurie wrote Apache-SSL, the basis of most SSL-enabled versions of the Apache HTTP Server. He developed the MUD Gods, which was innovative in including online creation in its endgame.
Laurie also has written several articles, papers and books and is interested in ideal knots and their applications.
Louvain University
Jean-Jacques Quisquater is a Belgian cryptographer and a professor at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain). He received, with Claus P. Schnorr, the RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics and the ESORICS Outstanding Research Award in 2013.[1]
Louvain University
Francois-Xavier Standaert was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1978. He received the Electrical Engineering degree and PhD degree from the Universite catholique de Louvain, respectively in 2001 and 2004. In 2004-2005, he was a Fulbright visiting researcher at Columbia University, Department of Computer Science, Crypto Lab (hosted by Tal G. Malkin and Moti Yung) and at the MIT Medialab, Center for Bits and Atoms (hosted by Neil Gershenfeld). In 2006, he was a founding member of IntoPix s.a. From 2005 to 2008, he was a post-doctoral researcher of the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS-F.R.S.) at the UCL Crypto Group and a regular visitor of the two aforementioned laboratories. Since 2008 (resp. 2017, 2024), he is associate researcher (resp. senior associate researcher, research director) of the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS-F.R.S). Since 2013 (resp. 2018), he is associate professor (resp. professor) at the UCL Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics (ICTEAM).
Dell / EMC
Charlie Kaufman, a security architect for the Midrange Storage Business Unit at Dell/EMC, works on securing the current and future generations of midrange storage arrays. He has been involved with computer networking, cryptography, and security for over 25 years, and holds over 50 patents in those fields. He has contributed to a number of IETF standards efforts including IPsec, S/MIME, and DNSsec and served as a member of the Internet Architecture Board. He is co-author of the popular textbook Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World. It was in the course of working on the third edition that he learned about quantum computing.