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.
Course Material
Reflective Writing Assignment
In 500-1000 words, identify and discuss three topics, perspectives, or positions that you’ve engaged with in this course. For each, write about how your position or your thoughts have changed, deepened, or gained nuance, and write down a “takeaway” in the form of something you’d like your future self to remember and be guided by. Be sure to look at the rubric before you begin work!
2.4: Case Analysis on User Data
Should the United States adopt something like Europe’s new Privacy Laws?