CYBERSECURITY-TECHNICAL-SOCIETY

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.

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 cyber systems’ components, mechanisms, and
functions produce security concerns.
4. Discuss cyber technology’s impact on individuals’ experiences with crime and
victimization.
5. Understand and describe both intended and unintended ethical dilemmas 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 appropriate and inappropriate behavior.
9. Describe how cybersecurity produces ideas of progress and modernism.

Work completed in class:

• Write up #1: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Suxd_MF0QW163W_5fM6F86pRgBOeWDzpAlXkJtiDnnE/edit?usp=sharing
• Write up #2: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PSF6D7JPZTVg_7jaYaVYuWBzbRe-ugju3O6pGXDFcYw/edit?usp=sharing
• Write up #3: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aC5rBpCAbmLZzRO8SIW_mwVlQW1f88b5z7M0iC2JZW0/edit?usp=sharing