I. Course Title: Societal Security in Computing
II. Course Number: ITEC 411
III. Credit Hours: 3 credits
IV. Prerequisites: ITEC 120 (Grade of 鈥淐鈥� or better)
V. Course Description:
Course will explore the concepts of Cybercrime, Cyber Law, Cyber Ethics, Cyber Policy,
and Privacy.
VI. Detailed Description of Content of the Course:
Topics include:
- The scope, cost and legal environment relating to cyber-based intellectual property
theft.
- The current legal environment in relation to cyberspace.
- Understanding and Application of moral reasoning models to addressing current and
emerging ethical dilemmas in computing.
- Understanding and Analysis of cyber issues as they relate to the national interest
generally, and to national (and national security) policy more specifically.
- Understanding of privacy in computing and its related challenges.
VI. Detailed Description of Conduct of Course:
This will be a primarily asynchronous, online course with online meetings to accompany
the asynchronous modules.
VII. Goals and Objectives of the Course:
Students who complete the course will be able to:
- Discuss various motives for cybercrime behavior.
- Summarize terror activities in cyberspace geared toward generating societal fear and
uncertainty.
- Describe methods for investigating both domestic and international crimes.
- Explain why preserving the chain of digital evidence is necessary in prosecuting cybercrimes.
- Describe the constitutional foundation of cyber law.
- Describe international data security and computer hacking laws.
- Interpret intellectual property laws related to security.
- Summarize laws governing online privacy.
- Distinguish among virtue ethics, utilitarian ethics and deontological ethics.
- Paraphrase professional ethics and codes of conduct from prominent professional societies
such as ACM, IEEE-CS, AIS and (ISC)2.
- Describe ways in which decision-making algorithms could over-represent or under-represent
majority and minority groups in society.
- Describe major international public policy positions and the impact they have on organizations
and individuals.
- Summarize nation-specific cybersecurity public policy with respect to the protection
of sensitive information and protection of critical infrastructure.
- Explain global impact of cybersecurity to culture including areas such as the economy,
social issues, policy and laws.
- Describe the concept of privacy including the societal definition of what constitutes
personally private information and the tradeoffs between individual privacy and security.
- Summarize the tradeoff between the rights to privacy by the individual versus the
needs of society.
- Describe the common practices and technologies used to safeguard personal privacy.
VIII. Assessment Measures:
Student achievement is measured by tests, papers, and quizzes.
Review and Approval
August 2020