Cybersecurity, Technology, and Society
Students in IT/CYSE 200T will explore how technology is related to cybersecurity from an interdisciplinary orientation. Attention is given to the way that technologically-driven cybersecurity issues are connected to cultural, political, legal, ethical, and business domains. The learning outcomes for this course are as follows:
- Describe how cyber technology creates opportunities for criminal behavior,
- Identify how cultural beliefs interact with technology to impact cybersecurity strategies,
- Understand and describe how the components, mechanisms, and functions of cyber systems produce security concerns,
- Discuss the impact that cyber technology has on individuals’ experiences with crime and victimization,
- Understand and describe ethical dilemmas, both intended and unintended, that cybersecurity efforts, produce for individuals, nations, societies, and the environment,
- Describe the costs and benefits of producing secure cyber technologies,
- Understand and describe the global nature of cybersecurity and the way that cybersecurity efforts have produced and inhibited global changes,
- Describe the role of cybersecurity in defining definitions of appropriate an inappropriate behavior,
- Describe how cybersecurity produces ideas of progress and modernism.
Course Material
Write-up: The Human Factor of Cybersecurity
During this week’s reading, you’ve been exposed to different points of view regarding human contribution to cyber threats. Now, put on your Chief Information Security Officer hat. Realizing that you have a limited budget (the amount is unimportant), how would you balance the tradeoff of training and additional cybersecurity technology? That is, how would you allocate your limited funds? Explain your reasoning.
Write-up: The CIA Triad
Using the Chai Article (Links to an external site.), along with additional research you will conduct on your own, describe the CIA Triad, and the differences between Authentication & Authorization, including an example.
Write-Up: SCADA Systems
In this write-up you will use the SCADA Systems article, along with your own research, to explain the vulnerabilities associated with critical infrastructure systems, and the role SCADA applications play in mitigating these risks.
In-class group exercise: exploring cybercrime
Students are to be assigned groups in class and given 30 minutes to write a short report on an assigned cybercrime