IT 513 SOC POL & CULT IMPACTS OF CS

This course focuses on the need to understand the risks of cyber-attack as cybersecurity risks pose some of the most serious economic and national security challenges the world is currently facing. Essential systems and resources are now increasingly software dependent, distributed, and interconnected through the Internet. This course will examine real and potential detrimental consequences of this growing connectivity and dependence on the Internet and its impact on political conflict, social instability, and other events. This course will evaluate the benefits the Internet has provided in making communication and information sharing easy along with the realization that it has also created a new space in which criminals and terrorists can operate often anonymously with difficult, if not impossible, attribution.

Credits

Prerequisite

IT 501 and IT 565

Distribution

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY