Cybersecurity Strategy and Policy

This writing intensive course explores cybersecurity policy and strategy and introduces students to the essentials of strategy development and policy making in cybersecurity. Topics considered include planning principles in cyber strategy; risk management and cybersecurity policy; the connections between cybersecurity policies, businesses, and governmental institutions; the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to develop and implement cybersecurity policy; the social, political and ethical implications that arise in cybersecurity policies and strategies; strategies to assess cybersecurity policy; and the ties between national security and cybersecurity policy.

The Course Objectives for this course are to:

• Describe the goal and structure of a national security strategy
• Critically communicate the political and social implications that arise with cybersecurity policies and strategies.
• Compare and interpret cybersecurity policy issues and make recommendations on policy choices.
• Identify international cyber crisis management and conflict resolution mechanisms.
• Debate ethical issues that arise with cybersecurity policies
• Identify possible developments in cybersecurity strategy and policy.
• Assess cybersecurity strategy and policy, describe policy implications, and make policy recommendations in the form of a scholarly paper.

The Policy Analysis Paper was divided into three parts and my papers on the subject of the Data Breach Notification Law can be found below:

Antonio-Shields-CYSE-425W-Data-Breach-Notification-Law-Policy-Analysis-Paper-1-02-26-23

Antonio-Shields-CYSE-425W-Data-Breach-Notification-Law-Policy-Analysis-Paper-2-03-26-23

Antonio-Shields-CYSE-425W-Data-Breach-Notification-Law-Policy-Analysis-Paper-3-04-20-23