2018-2019 Graduate Catalog

CS 637 Professional Responsibility: Cybersecurity: Policies & Practice

This course will examine the issues associated with cyber security from business, technical and ethical perspectives.  What does it mean to be a Cybersecurity professional? Topics include but are not limited to: network neutrality, corporate and government policies, digital divide, child pornography, intellectual property, hacking and phishing, malware as big business, treaties and their limits.  The course will also examine recent bills being considered by the US government as well as the EU and other countries.  Examples taken from the real world such as how to handle the cyber security of installed medical devices, insulin pumps, pacemakers, and the tradeoffs between providing external access for EMTs and keeping out hackers will be explored.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Permission of Department