Students in IT/CYSE 200T explored how technology is related to cybersecurity from an interdisciplinary orientation.  Attention was 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:

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• 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 and inappropriate behavior,

• Describe how cybersecurity produces ideas of progress and modernism.