USENIX Enigma Conference Courses

The Adventurous Tale of Online Voting in Switzerland

A case study of Switzerland’s iterative online-voting experiments, security failures, and scientist–government collaboration to rebuild electoral regulation.

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

Designing Verifiable Health Solutions for Global Pandemic

Explores a privacy-preserving architecture for verifying health attestations, lab results, and vaccination history during a pandemic.

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

Does Your Threat Model Consider Country and Culture? A Case Study of Brazilian Internet Banking Security to Show That It Should

A Brazilian malware dataset reveals why internet banking threat models must account for country and culture.

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

Quantifying Memory Unsafety and Reactions to It

Empirical evidence on memory-unsafe vulnerabilities and how developers respond to calls to move away from C and C++.

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

Detecting Fake 4G LTE Base Stations in Real Time

A demonstration of open-source software and inexpensive hardware for detecting fake 4G/LTE base stations, decoding broadcasts, mapping antennas, and identifying anomalies in real time.

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

What Shark Conservation Teaches Us about Emotionality and Effective Communication Strategies for Security and Privacy

Lessons from shark conservation for communicating about security and privacy without exploiting fear during crises.

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

Breaking Trust – Shades of Crisis Across an Insecure Software Supply Chain

Examines 115 software supply chain attacks and vulnerability disclosures to explain their impact and the security and policy changes needed to address them.

• YouTube
• 20 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

A Sound Mind in a Vulnerable Body - Practical Hardware Attacks on Deep Learning

Explore how fault injection and cache side-channel attacks compromise deep neural networks and expose their architectures.

• YouTube
• 22 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

BeyondProd- The Origin of Cloud-Native Security at Google - Brandon Baker - USENIX Enigma - 2020

Learn how BeyondProd applies zero-trust principles to secure cloud-native services through identity, code provenance, isolation, and verified deployment.

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

Surfing the Motivation Wave to Create Security Behavior Change - Masha Sedova - USENIX Enigma - 2018

Explore how to use naturally occurring and generated motivation to move employees from security awareness to secure action.

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

When Malware Changed Its Mind - How Split Personalities Affect Malware Analysis and Detection

How malware that changes behavior across hosts or time can confound analysis and detection, and what large-scale ethical monitoring reveals.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Very Hungry Defender - Metamorphosing Security Decision-Making by Incorporating Opportunity Cost

Learn how incorporating opportunity cost and hidden organizational, user, employee, and societal costs can improve information security decisions.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

What Public Interest AI Auditors Can Learn from Security Testing - Legislative and Practical Wins

Learn how public-interest AI auditors can adapt security-testing practices and legal strategies to investigate algorithmic bias and other AI harms.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video