ISET-4202:Ethics, Law and Policy in Cyberspace

DescriptionThe course provides an overview of the ethical challenges faced by individuals and organizations in the information age and introduces the complex and dynamic state of law as it applies to behavior in cyberspace. The course also highlights the bit falls and dangers of doing business in an interconnected world, and provide understanding how to ethically and legally operate and use modern computer systems and networks. Policies and standards such as Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA, Gramm, Leach, Bliley, will be introduced. The course introduces the entire lifecycle of security policy creation and development including issue specific policies in different domains of security. The course teaches students how to allocate the appropriate security techniques needed to satisfy a specific security policy in context of real life situations.Lecture: 2 hrs/week; tutorial: 2 hrs/week (optional); Lab: 2 hrs/week.