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

Privacy is a big part of ethics in the world of cybersecurity. As technology advances, maintaining privacy becomes harder and harder to do, so it is important that it is accounted for when advancements are made. In this artifact, I use the moral system of deontology to discuss privacy and privacy concerns in technology today, namely in tools like Google Street View.

Professional ethics is also a majorly important part of ethics. In their jobs, people may be asked to do certain things that are not ethical for any number of reasons, though mostly for increasing profits. That’s why it is important for people to follow a certain ethical code, such as the IEEE code of ethics, so that they remain ethical while doing their jobs. This artifact discusses these important details and uses the ethics of care to further understand ethical decision making in circumstances such as these.

At the end of the term, we did a reflective paper reflecting on all that we have learned from the course. From the different moral systems to our answers to ethical cybersecurity questions, and all we have learned throughout the course. This artifact shows what I learned from this course, and is listed below.