Cyber Ethics

The student will demonstrate an understanding of:

• The fundamental concepts, terms, and ideas required for an informed discussion on ethical topics
• A brief introduction to several commonly seen and referenced philosophies regarding ethics in general
• An overview of ethical business practices
• An intellectual object
• A review of current U.S. copyright law, how copyrights are obtained, other intellectual property issues; what an intellectual object is, how intellectual objects differ from traditional (physical) objects, and how those objects may be owned
• Explain the differences between those protections and copyrights
• Why professional codes of conduct are important for cybersecurity professionals
• Commonly used and invoked professional codes;  employer/employee relationships and the impact those relationships have on the practice of 'whistle-blowing'; responsibility, accountability, and liability as they relate to professional codes of conduct
• Freedom of Speech on the Internet; issues surrounding speech on the Internet and the associated legal concerns; cyber-squatting, spam, and censorship; forms of speech that some argue are protected including pornography and hate speech; defamation on the Internet;
• Hacking, describing the two main categories of hackers, black hat hackers, their motivations, and their characteristics, 'white hat' hackers and key differences between white hat and black hat hackers; hacktivism, cybercrime, and cyberterrorism, and how those acts are similar and dissimilar.