Cybersecurity, Technology, and Society

Students will explore how technology is related to cybersecurity from an interdisciplinary orientation.  Attention is given to how technologically driven cybersecurity issues are connected to cultural, political, legal, ethical, and business domains.  

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 cyber systems’ components, mechanisms, and functions produce security concerns. 
4. Discuss cyber technology’s impact on individuals’ experiences with crime and victimization.  
5. Understand and describe both intended and unintended ethical dilemmas 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 and inappropriate behavior. 
9. Describe how cybersecurity produces ideas of progress and modernism.