USENIX Enigma Conference Courses

Working on the Frontlines - Privacy and Security with Vulnerable Populations

A frontline perspective on protecting journalists and activists through context-aware privacy and security work.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Myths and Lies in InfoSec

Examines false statistics, accepted practices, and demotivating maxims in information security, showing how critical thinking and source checking can expose them.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Can the Fight Against Disinformation Really Scale?

A talk on why trust belongs to people and communities—not information—and how that shapes responses to online disinformation.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Practical Divide between Adversarial ML Research and Security Practice - A Red Team Perspective

A red-team perspective on the gap between adversarial machine learning research and practical security, including lessons from protecting ML systems.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Hardware - A Double-Edged Sword for Security

Explores how hardware features serve as security anchors yet introduce vulnerabilities, with examples of insecure configurations, architectural risks, and secure-hardware lifecycle approaches.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Limits of Sandboxing and Next Steps

Why sandboxing alone cannot fully secure real-world software—and how memory safety can close gaps left by operating system limitations.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Adventures in Authentication and Authorization

Explore a microservice ecosystem’s journey implementing authentication and authorization through credential scopes, service-to-service access control, and end-user context.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Navigating the Sandbox Buffet

Explore how a modern “sandbox buffet” isolates risky, memory-unsafe software by balancing virtualization, containment, and jail-based security tradeoffs.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Meaningful Hardware Privacy for a Smart and Augmented Future

Examines recording LEDs and privacy mute switches as hardware mechanisms for trustworthy sensor privacy in smart and augmented devices.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Crypto for the People - Part 2

A talk examining how cryptography’s benefits reach some groups while leaving disenfranchised communities behind.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Global Privacy Control - Exercising Legal Rights at Scale

How the Global Privacy Control makes consumer opt-out rights scalable across websites under new privacy laws.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Protect2020 - An After Action Report

An after-action review of election security efforts, examining what happened in 2020, what worked, what failed, and how to improve.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Security Team at the Top - The Board of Directors

Learn how CISOs can engage boards, communicate cyber risk in business terms, and turn directors into strategic security partners.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

When Machine Learning Isn't Private

See how machine learning models leak memorized training data, how adversaries extract it from GPT-2, and why differential privacy carries a utility cost.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Security & U.S. Political Campaigns - A Study & Expert Roundtable

Research and expert recommendations on improving cybersecurity practices in U.S. political campaigns to protect democratic institutions.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk