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
Below are some of the case analyses I wrote during the course period. I decided to go with an earlier one and a later one to show the evolution in my writing skills over the course. I also wanted to show how my understanding of the different ethical tools and how I used them to analyze given cases.
- 1.4. Case Analysis on PrivacySince the release of Street View, there have been a ton of privacy concerns regarding Google and the public. There are a lot of things that Google could have done during the release of Street View regarding people’s privacy. Throughout the case presented by Vaidhyanathan, multiple privacy and ethical concerns made a lot of people…
- 5.4 Case Analysis on WhistleblowingBefore I can get into the case and analyze it, it is important to know what Confucianism is. Confucianism dates back to ancient China and is a belief system that is largely based on personal ethics and morality. It also appreciates justice and loyalty Confucian teachings were very conservative and were a way to keep…