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

Philosophy 355E is a class that effectively teaches the importance of moral and ethical aspects of cyber in today’s technology driven society. This course has provided ample examples, scenarios, and articles that supported the course’s purpose and objective. The course work required extensive participation in reading, writing and opinion driven thinking, but despite the amount of work, the class taught the significance of being concrete and strong with my opinions and beliefs. Cybersecurity philosophy especially stressed the importance of how cyber technologies affect the society as a whole considering the issues and challenges it arises as this age of computer advance. It questions and challenge the intentions and purpose of those who hole most power and knowledge when using technologies to do their work. Similarly, this class takes into consideration those who are not as knowledgeable to their own devices and how they truly work. Lastly, it takes both of those factors and ask to apply moral and ethical principles on the topics provided that, then, let students realize and learn the rights and wrongs of each scenario studied. This philosophy class is an important course to learn for it serves to teach that the technologies that are out there already are merely used as tools to use for whatever the intention of those behind the screen are planning. Intentions and purpose are the centralized take away of this course that teaches students that cyber, like anything in human’s disposal, can be used to help and enhance the living of society or it can be weaponized to cause harm to others to seek advantage. Overall, I have learned that morality and ethics are a must and should be required for all to either realize that they me be being wronged or doing the wrong. Society must be knowledgeable and aware of they are using on the daily, especially the technologies we all so rely on.