Leadership

PHIL 355E Cybersecurity Ethics

This course examines ethical issues relevant to ethics for cybersecurity professionals, including privacy, professional code of conduct, practical conflicts between engineering ethics and business practices, individual and corporate social responsibility, ethical hacking, information warfare, and cyberwarfare. Students will gain a broad understanding of central issues in cyberethics and how fundamental ethical theories relate to these core issues.

Course Reflection

As part of the Cyber LeADERS requirements, Cybersecurity Ethics is taught because it offers a diverse insight into how professionals in the field encounter various ethical and moral dilemmas that could quickly happen to someone like myself as they work in the Cybersecurity industry. Being a Cyber LeADERS and SFS recipient, I will need to know how to apply my current and developing professional skills to Federal service. Civil servants, above all else, must put the good of the country and community before themselves and ensure proper and equitable services are rendered without delay or favoritism to one group or another. As a developing IT/Cybersecurity professional, I must ensure my actions and decision-making conform to standard operating procedures (SOPs) and legal and regulatory requirements as needed, and as a future civil servant, faithfully uphold the duties of my appointment and service to the U.S. Constitution, country, and community.