IDS 300W: Interdisciplinary Theory and Concepts was one of the most eye-opening courses I took as a cybersecurity major. The premise of the class pushed students to approach a research topic not just from one discipline, but from multiple intersecting fields simultaneously. For someone who spends most of their academic time in a technical headspace, that was genuinely refreshing and challenging in equal measure.

My research focused on healthcare cybersecurity incidents and the legal issues that follow them, a topic I titled “Code Blue: Legal Issues for Healthcare Cybersecurity Incidents.” What made this research feel meaningful was how many fields it required me to actually think from: healthcare and health sciences, law and legal liability, risk management, criminal justice, and computer science all had a seat at the table. No single lens was enough to understand the problem, and that was exactly the point.

The course also included a writing workshop where I developed and refined my research through structured writing exercises and visual aids, building the argument piece by piece before bringing it all together in the final term paper.

This experience reinforced something I now carry into my career in cloud security and operations: the most complex problems rarely have purely technical solutions. Understanding the legal, organizational, and human dimensions of a cybersecurity incident is just as important as understanding the technical ones.

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