IT/CYSE 200T

Cybersecurity, Technology, and Society

In IT/CYSE 200T, we explored 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:

  1. Describe how cyber technology creates opportunities for criminal behavior,
  2. Identify how cultural beliefs interact with technology to impact cybersecurity strategies,
  3. Understand and describe how the components, mechanisms, and functions of cyber systems produce security concerns,
  4. Discuss the impact that cyber technology has on individuals’ experiences with crime and victimization,
  5. Understand and describe ethical dilemmas, both intended and unintended, that cybersecurity efforts, produce for individuals, nations, societies, and the environment,
  6. Describe the costs and benefits of producing secure cyber technologies,
  7. Understand and describe the global nature of cybersecurity and the way that cybersecurity efforts have produced and inhibited global changes,
  8. Describe the role of cybersecurity in defining definitions of appropriate an inappropriate behavior,
  9. Describe how cybersecurity produces ideas of progress and modernism.

Course Material

In this course, I have completed several activities including a reflection essay, a weekly technology and cybersecurity journal,  and several quizzes and exams. Here are some of the write-ups I did over the semester that cover some of the course objectives:

  1. From my course material and my own research, here I explain the vulnerabilities associated with critical infrastructure systems, and the role SCADA applications play in mitigating these risks:   SCADA write-up                                          
  2. In this article, using my own research, I describe the CIA Triad and the differences between Authentication & Authorization while also including an example:  CIA triad write-up                                                                                                                           
  3.  Here is a write-up explaining the components of a business, how different roles fit in an organization, where IT fits in a business, what the roles are within the IT department, and how IT should be organized within a business:   Components of a business write-up