Cybersecurity, Technology, and Society

In IT/CYSE 200T I explored 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. Some of the things I learned in Cybersecurity include:

1. Learned how cyber technology creates opportunities for criminal behavior.
2. How cultural beliefs interact with technology to impact cybersecurity strategies,
3. Understand and describe how the components, mechanisms, and functions of cyber systems produce security concerns,
4.  The impact that cyber technology has on individuals’ experiences with crime and victimization,
5. Understand and describe ethical dilemmas, both intended and unintended, that cybersecurity efforts, produce for individuals, nations, societies, and the environment,
6. The costs and benefits of producing secure cyber technologies,
7. The global nature of cybersecurity and the way that cybersecurity efforts have produced and inhibited global changes,
8. The role of cybersecurity in defining definitions of appropriate an inappropriate behavior,
9. How cybersecurity produces ideas of progress and modernism.

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