Homeland Security Courses

Strange Loop Conference

Mill vs. Spectre - Performance and Security

Explains how speculative execution enables Spectre and Meltdown, and how Mill achieves out-of-order performance without hardware speculation.

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

Strange Loop Conference

The Security of Classic Game Consoles

Explore how classic game consoles protected their hardware, media, and software—and how those defenses were exploited to inform modern security engineering.

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

Security BSides San Francisco

Arcades and Audits - What Gaming Can Do for Your Security Posture

Gamify business continuity and disaster recovery drills with tabletop and functional exercises to build urgency, collaboration, and readiness for real outages.

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

Security BSides San Francisco

Surfing the Motivation Wave to Create Security Behavior Change

Explores how motivation, habits, rewards, and timely security events can drive lasting employee security behavior change and produce meaningful metrics.

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

Security BSides San Francisco

Concrete Steps to Create a Security Culture

Practical strategies for building organizational security culture through influence, security champions, developer education, creative engagement, and measurement.

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

Security BSides San Francisco

BeyondCorp - Beyond "Fortress" Security

Learn how Google’s BeyondCorp replaces perimeter security with identity- and device-based access policies for work from anywhere.

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

Security BSides San Francisco

So You’re the First Security Hire - Creating a Security Program and Integrating Security into Your Company’s Culture

A practical guide for a first security hire to build a security program and integrate security into company culture.

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

White Hat Cal Poly

Home Security - Tony Bone

Explore smart-home security systems, their sensing and alarm circuits, common flaws, and practical safety measures such as unique passwords and two-factor authentication.

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

White Hat Cal Poly

Cyber-Physical Security - Dr. Bruce DeBruhl

An introduction to how cyberattacks interact with physical systems, using cars, industrial controls, Stuxnet, replay attacks, and smart-grid security as examples.

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

Security BSides London

Securing Cloud Delivery Pipelines - Findings From A Blue-Red Team Security Simulation

A blue-team simulation reveals how cloud delivery pipelines, account boundaries, code review, and engineering practices can defend against advanced attackers.

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

Security BSides London

When the Magic Wears Off - Flaws in ML for Security Evaluations and What to Do About It

Examine how spatial and temporal bias inflate malware-classifier results and how realistic evaluation constraints reveal robustness over time.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Security BSides London

How Google Turned Me into My Mother - The Proxy Paradox in Security

This keynote examines why enterprise identity and access models fail to support legal, fiduciary, and family proxies in everyday online accounts.

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

Bill Buchanan OBE

Cyber Security for Fintech - Cluster Initiatives and Partnerships

Overview of Scotland’s fintech cybersecurity cluster, partnerships, ecosystem, and support programs.

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

Bill Buchanan OBE

Web Security and Encryption: From Browser Telemetry to Enterprise TLS - Guest Lecture

A guest lecture examining web security, encryption, TLS, DNS privacy, browser telemetry, and the debate over backdoors.

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

Black Hat

Attack on Titan M, Reloaded - Vulnerability Research on a Modern Security Chip

Vulnerability research on Google’s Titan M security chip, combining firmware fuzzing and emulation to uncover a zero-day enabling code execution and StrongBox key leakage.

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