Cybersecurity Ethics
This Course involved examining different ethical principles and perspectives and applying them to real-world scenarios. Rather than providing a personal opinion on the ethics of an event or policy, the course required students to argue from a set list of perspectives. The concepts covered included privacy, freedom of speech, content control on the Internet, individual and social responsibility, cybersecurity, cybercrimes, the social impact of computers and other digital technologies, and the ethical obligations of IT professionals.
Through this course, I have explored new topics and deepened my understanding of those I had previously studied in other classes. Analyzing the many ethical principles throughout the course has provided new perspectives and methods for approaching moral issues, rather than relying solely on my personal beliefs and values. The topics I enjoyed the most throughout the course were consequentialism, the Stuxnet worm, and corporate social responsibility (CSR). While I enjoyed other aspects of this course, these three topics stood out to me in particular for prompting me to question my thought process.