CYSE 201s

While cybersecurity is frequently only seen as a technical issue, this course takes a multi-disciplinary perspective to illustrate how it is related to social, political, legal, criminological, and economic dimensions. To understand the impetus of a cybersecurity threat relating human factors to social behaviors and environmental circumstances is central to the course. Societies also have a range of mechanisms to regulate harmful behaviors online, including law and policing, which will also be examined, before bringing together this interdisciplinary subject from the perspective of social science more generally, including psychology, sociology, criminology, political science, economics, and international studies; this holistic view will provide students with a broad and integrated paradigm for analysis.

Social networking, internet and cyber security concept