{"id":123,"date":"2024-02-12T21:32:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T21:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cyberimpact1\/?page_id=123"},"modified":"2025-09-18T22:01:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T22:01:32","slug":"cyse-301","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vsmith05\/cyse-301\/","title":{"rendered":"CYSE 201s"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center\">Cybersecurity and the Social Sciences<\/h1>\n<p>Cybersecurity is typically conceived as a technical topic. In reality, the topic is multi-disciplinary, and some aspects of the topic are best understood through a social science lens.\u00a0 This course addresses the social, political, legal, criminological, and economic dimensions of cybersecurity through a social science framework.\u00a0 Students are introduced to a human-factors approach to understanding cybersecurity threats.\u00a0 Attention is given to the social factors that contribute to cyber incidents and the political and legal mechanisms that are developed to control the behaviors of those who create risks in cybersecurity incidents.\u00a0 The class also explores how cybersecurity is studied by social scientists in psychology, political science, criminology, economics, sociology, international studies, and other social science disciplines.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand the concepts and major constructs of the C programming language,<\/li>\n<li>Master the programming skills of the C programming language,<\/li>\n<li>Be able to analyze the C source code to infer the functionality of a given code segment, C function, C program etc,<\/li>\n<li>Grasp the needed techniques and skills to write a C program in cybersecurity operations such as a network protocol stack,<\/li>\n<li>Monitor and analyze network traffic. Identify and trace the traffic when intrusion is detected in the network,<\/li>\n<li>Identify and evaluate the vulnerabilities in the network and implement effective countermeasures to protect the network,<\/li>\n<li>Master the technologies to exploit the vulnerabilities in a remote system,<\/li>\n<li>Analyze the vulnerabilities in wireless communication network,<\/li>\n<li>Manage data and personal information in a secure manner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Learning Outcomes :-\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>After completing this class, students will be able to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Compare how basic psychological, sociological, criminological, political, economic, and legal theories and models explain cybersecurity<\/li>\n<li>Identify the strengths and weaknesses of those theories in understanding the connections between human behaviors and cybersecurity<\/li>\n<li>Define key concepts including cybersecurity, cybercrime, cyber criminology, cyber law, digital forensics, human factors, cyber policy, cyber risk, cyber threats, and cyberwar.<\/li>\n<li>Identify how professionals in various cybersecurity careers apply these multidisciplinary concepts in their daily routines<\/li>\n<li>Describe how hypotheses and research questions are formed in studies addressing cybersecurity through a social science lens<\/li>\n<li>Describe how data are collected, measured, and analyzed in studies addressing cybersecurity through a social science lens<\/li>\n<li>Identify how marginalized groups have confronted challenges and concerns related to cybersecurity as well as how these groups have contributed to our understanding about the topic.<\/li>\n<li>Explain how the application of social science theories, principles, and research strategies have contributed to our understanding of cybersecurity at the societal level.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity and the Social Sciences Cybersecurity is typically conceived as a technical topic. In reality, the topic is multi-disciplinary, and some aspects of the topic are best understood through a social science lens.\u00a0 This course addresses the social, political, legal, criminological, and economic dimensions of cybersecurity through a social science framework.\u00a0 Students are introduced to&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vsmith05\/cyse-301\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":28665,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vsmith05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vsmith05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vsmith05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vsmith05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vsmith05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vsmith05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vsmith05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/123\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/vsmith05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}