CYBERSECURITY – TECHNOLOGY- SOCIETY : PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER BOWMAN
I explored how technology is related to cybersecurity from an interdisciplinary orientation. Attention was given to the way that technologically-driven cybersecurity issues are connected to cultural, political, legal, ethical, and business domains.
Learning Outcomes
After completing this class, I was able to:
- Describe how cyber technology creates opportunities for criminal behavior
- Identify how cultural beliefs interact with technology to impact cybersecurity strategies
- Understand and describe how the components, mechanisms, and functions of cyber systems produce security concerns
- Discuss the impact that cyber technology has on individuals’ experiences with crime and victimization
- Understand and describe ethical dilemmas, both intended and unintended, that cybersecurity efforts produce for individuals, nations, societies, and the environment
- Describe the costs and benefits of producing secure cyber technologies
- Understand and describe the global nature of cybersecurity and the way that cybersecurity efforts have produced and inhibited global changes
- Describe the role of cybersecurity in defining definitions of appropriate and inappropriate behavior
- Describe how cybersecurity produces ideas of progress and modernism