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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n