The Cybersecurity Ethics 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. The course allows students to gain a broad understanding of central issues in cyber ethics and the ways that fundamental ethical theories relate to these core issues.
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At the end of the Summer 2023 course, I briefly reflected on some interesting topics that our class discussed during the course and noted some key takeaways that I’d like myself to be guided by going forward with respect to cybersecurity ethics and information privacy.
Reflective-Writing-AssignmentThe Googlization of Everything
This analysis paper on privacy analyzes the text, The Googlization of Everything, by Siva Vaidhyanathan, and provides suggestions for improvement of Google Street View to minimize privacy concerns.
Googlization-of-EverythingGeneral Data Protection Regulation
This analysis paper on GDPR analyzes the article, “What is GDPR?,” by Danny Palmer, and responds to the question of whether or not the United States should seek to adopt a similar position to Europe in regards to data protection.
What-is-GDPR-Danny-Palmer.-Case-Analysis-on-User-Data