Welcome to the course of hardware security, a part of the Coursera Cyber Security specialization. My name is Gong Chu. I'm a professor at the University of Maryland College Park, and I'm the Director of Maryland's Embedded Systems and Hardware Security lab. This cybersecurity specialization consists of four lecturing courses, taught by University of Maryland faculty members. The usable security by Jen Golbeck, the software security by Mike Hicks, the cryptography by Jonathan Katz. And the hardware security, by me. We will al, also offer a capsule design course. The [INAUDIBLE] overall goal of this specialization is to deliver a broad and multi-disciplinary perspective on the current topic being cyber security to the entire Coursera students. Cryptography, software, hardware and usability are four of the most critical components to build any secure systems. Here is my view of hardware [INAUDIBLE] in this system. So first hardware provides the platform for the execution of software, and an efficient option to implement cryptography. In terms of usability, most users interact with hardware devices and systems more often that source code, hence the underlying mathematical formulas. A securer system must have secure, and a trusted hardware support. On the other hand, today's hardware design heavily relies on a set of specific software tools known as computer aided design tools, or CAD tools. The security problems, your hardware and hardware design also need both securely sound and practically usable solutions. The course is called hardware security, so we will cover both hardware and the security. From the side of hardware, we will consider the design and fabrication of integrated circuits, or chips, the field programmable gate arrays FPGAs, and the popular embedded systems. On the security side, we will discuss about the systems security, vulnerabilities, threats and attacks from hardware sites. We will talk about how to build trusted and secure hardware components. We will also talk about the available hardware security primitives to help people build more secure systems. [SOUND] The course will last, say six weeks. For each week, we expect you to spend three to five hours to complete the weekly quiz, watch the video clips, and also to do some additional readings. [SOUND] In terms of the background, it is my intention to make this course manageable for anyone who has some background of computer science or engineering. You will find, if you know something about digital logic desig,n about programming any language, about the finite state machine, which is a very popular computational model, and some basics of modern cryptography, this will be very, very helpful. However, I will cover all the necessary background to make the course self-contained. We, we will also provide links to those who want to learn more about these topics. Upon the completion of this course, you will be able to understand the vulnerabilities and the threats to a system from hardware perspective. And you will also know the available countermeasures to these threats. You will be able to perform a security evaluation for the hardware implementations of cryptography primitives and the security protocols. You will also be able to analyze and assess the tradeoffs among system performance, cost, and security. In addition, we expect you to be able to design and build in, integrated circuits or embedded systems with better security and trust. You'd learn hardware security primitives, and how to use them for secure system design. And finally, you will know how to use self-protect methods, such as digital watermark, fingerprints, and the integrate circuit metering to protect your design intellectual properties, in addition to the patent, copyright and other law enforcement. Good luck on the course and enjoy learning hardware security.
