CS 637 Professional Responsibility: Cybersecurity: Policies & Practice
This course will examine the issues associated with cybersecurity 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, and treaties and their limits. The course will also examine recent bills under consideration by the U.S. government as well as the EU and other countries. Examples taken from the real world such as how to handle the cybersecurity of installed medical devices, insulin pumps, pacemakers, and the tradeoffs between providing external access for EMTs and keeping out hackers will be explored.