Students will explore 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. Specifically, we will explore how the disciplines of business, technology, criminal justice, sociology, psychology, and philosophy contribute to cybersecurity.

After completing this course, students will be able to… 

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 and inappropriate behavior. 
9. Describe how cybersecurity produces ideas of progress and modernism.