Cybersecurity, Technology, and Society
Students in IT/CYSE 200T 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. The learning outcomes for this course are as follows:
- Describe how cyber technology creates opportunities for criminal behavior,
- Identify how cultural beliefs interact with technology to impact cybersecurity strategies,
- Understand and describe how the components, mechanisms, and functions of cyber systems produce security concerns,
- Discuss the impact that cyber technology has on individuals’ experiences with crime and victimization,
- Understand and describe ethical dilemmas, both intended and unintended, that cybersecurity efforts, produce for individuals, nations, societies, and the environment,
- Describe the costs and benefits of producing secure cyber technologies,
- Understand and describe the global nature of cybersecurity and the way that cybersecurity efforts have produced and inhibited global changes,
- Describe the role of cybersecurity in defining definitions of appropriate an inappropriate behavior,
- Describe how cybersecurity produces ideas of progress and modernism.
Course Material Showcase
CYSE200T Analytical Paper – Xen Blunt-Jeffreys
This is an analysis paper that covers the social meanings and impacts of cybersecurity-related technical systems. My analysis covers: the change in the ethical framework of responsibility in the age of functional necessity and success; the shift in our relationship between technology and how we interact with the world; and an example of these concepts in a technical system, such as the SCADA systems.
This paper is a part of a class discussion on how we should regulate technology based on Peter-Paul Verbeek’s article, Designing the Public Sphere: Information Technologies and the Politics of Meditation. In this paper, I go over the difference of an internal, adaptive perception of our tech influenced world and an external, exclusive perception of our tech influenced world in regards to regulation.
The _Short Arm_ of Predictive Knowledge – Xen Blunt-Jeffreys
This paper is a part of a class discussion on how we should approach the development of cyber-policy and infrastructure in a new age of responsibility ethics in the wake of new technological developments. The information that I drew from to better respond to this discussion originated from Hans Jonas’ The “Short Arm” of Predictive Knowledge.