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.
End of course Reflection
During my time in this course, I have learned a lot of new material that will help me in the future. It also helps me understand more in depth how I feel about certain topics. I will be talking about three topics, and they will be privacy, our data, and Kantianism or Deontology. Kantianism really hit home to me because I really do believe in good karma and bad karma depends on the actions of what a person does. Kantianism basically means you should act with morality, in every situation, towards everyone, always. It makes me feel better when I am doing something good during my life because I know I will get good karma soon. I also like that the professor decides to use a popular comic book hero to show an example of Kantianism. For our data, I did not realize that our data can be used to traffic anyone by just using google street view. That really scared me because I heard about cyber stalking and cyber harassment but never by using Google map to see real time events. I also like when the T3 project was doing research and notice that their security over the data they collected was being compromised. They decided to close the project completely. That gave me hope that there are still good people in this world because there are many people who just want to cause harm. Such as Equifax when it failed to keep their customer’s data protected. All the data that was leaked were personal such as names, home addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, social security numbers, and driver’s license numbers. I also cannot believe that the United States of America still has not adopted a law or guidelines for both data and privacy yet for all the states. Some states do have their own rules or regulations against people abusing the internet. I have grown even more worried about our future with privacy. Privacy can make anyone feel free of the world and relax any situation that occurs during our lives. But when privacy is being stolen from us it can cause major hardships and stress. So, when the internet decides to take away your privacy slowly during the years it can be hard to know where you can just relax and be yourself. Such when you were young, students will cause drama to be popular but at present, it can spread to anywhere with just a click of a button, and everyone will know. It can be hard for people to regain their privacy when they are part of a rumor or when they get popular. We continue to lose our privacy because people do not care what will happen to us. Such as Facebook when they did not care about privacies over other users or when scammers try to gain information by selling you fake products. This increases my worries about the future of privacy. Privacy will continue to be part of technology but will also increase the threat unless someone lays guidelines to prevent it to become worse.