Ethics of Cybersecurity: 3 semester hours

Catalog description

This course provides a comprehensive examination of ethics as applied to the field of cybersecurity. Students will learn ethical frameworks and principles that they will apply to diverse issues within and related to cybersecurity. Specific topics to which ethical tools will be applied include but are not limited to value conflicts in cybersecurity systems, especially between system administrators and users; privacy, censorship, and filtering; intellectual property rights and digital rights management; special issues concerning the Internet of Things (IoT); accessibility and social justice. Special emphasis will be placed on issues of social justice pertaining to race, gender, ability, and socio-economic variables.