Emerging Cybersecurity Threats

Catalog description

In this class, the students will identify and set aside long-standing assumptions on how we do things in Cybersecurity to scan the horizon not only for emerging threats, but also to spot emerging opportunities. This is a student-driven class and learners are expected to drive the development of their ideas. The objective of this course is to teach students how to innovate. The learners will achieve this goal, individually or in small teams, by using the Four Lenses of Innovation methodology and other tools. The four lenses of innovation that students will explore and apply in this course are: Challenging Orthodoxies, Harnessing Trends, Leveraging Resources, Understanding Needs. During the course, students will explore and apply each innovation lens to the field of Cybersecurity as a whole, use the lens within specific organizational context, and apply them to select technologies and processes. The course also provides a structured opportunity to use the Four Lenses of Innovation methodology to chart the students professional career.