Cybersecurity Ethics

As part of the cybersecurity program at Old Dominion University students are required to take a cybersecurity ethics course. PHIL 355E Cybersecurity Ethics covers a wide range of ethical principles. As part of the course we are required to complete assignments that show our understanding of different ethical frameworks such as Ubuntu, Utilitarianism, Contractarianism, Deontological ethics, and Ethics of Care. After demonstrating an understanding of these concepts we then used them to write case analysis on different cybersecurity issues. Issues like privacy, user data, cyberconflict and whistleblowing. As an example of what this looks like below I will have one of my assignments embedded. The one I chose to upload was a case analysis on whistleblowing. 

This course focused my attention on different ways of understanding ethics. In order to be successful I had to read ethical principles that I was unfairly with and in doing so widened my world view. I think this helped reinforce my values particularly fairness and loyalty. As you will note the assignment I chose to upload speaks a lot about loyalty. 

I have several case analysis that I wrote throughout this course. They cover issues like privacy, user data, cyberconflict and whistleblowing. In these papers I analyze various real situations related to those issues using different ethical principles to approach the problem. The one I chose to highlight on this page is the case analysis on whistleblowing. 

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