Cybersecurity, Privacy & Ethics

Catalog description

Modern Enterprise and our technology-embedded civilization are deeply reliant on information technology, yet face continuous assault from external and internal threats, leading to devastating impacts on reputation, operational capacity, profits and our way of life. Crucially, this course is designed for professionals in ALL fields, recognizing that securing an organization requires a collective effort and providing insights into everyone’s vital role in cyber and information security.  This essential course provides a foundational, risk-based, and data-centric approach to information security, training students in governance, risk, compliance, and the ethical management of sensitive data to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Importance of resiliency, continuity and recovery controls will be weighed against the desire to prevent negative effects, before they happen. The implications of generative AI from a weaponization and defense perspective will be examined.  Students will explore the competing demands of unleashing data for business value versus protecting privacy expectations, examining how cybersecurity integrates with technical, managerial, legal, and ethical multidisciplinary areas. Beyond technical controls, the curriculum empowers students to understand how business decisions impact data security.  Students will be able to leverage the cross sections risk, regulation, technology and the real-world cyber threastscape to determine a no-nonsense, jargon-free, rubric of countermeasures that are essential to any organization.