Cybersecurity Ethics
This course examines ethical issues relevant to ethics for cybersecurity professionals, including privacy, professional code of conduct, practical conflicts between engineering ethics and business practices, individual and corporate social responsibility, ethical hacking, information warfare, and cyberwarfare. Students will gain a broad understanding of central issues in cyberethics and the ways that fundamental ethical theories relate to these core issues.
Learning Goals:
- Analyze ethical problems and make decisions based on ethical principles to solve them
- Apply these skills specifically to issues in cybersecurity
Course Objectives:
Analyze ethical problems related to cybersecurity
Apply principles learned from ethical theories to cybersecurity case studies
Identify the most common ethical issues in the cybersecurity field
Deliberate effectively about issues in cybersecurity ethics by clearly articulating a considered opinion in the context of relevant alternatives
Explain ethical principles, problems, and potential solutions clearly