IAAS 492 - Legal/Ethical Issues in Information Assurance

3 Credits
This course will explore the legal and ethical issues in information and computer security and the scope of security management that the security professional must understand. Topics will include state and local codes and regulations, privacy issues, and decision-making processes faced by security managers that involve important legal and ethical aspects. Other areas of interest include personnel law and obligations, negotiations, contract management, constitutional rights of individuals, legal compliance, ethical standards and legal liability, and cultural unconsciousness.

Prerequisite(s): IAAS 481
Course Learning Outcomes:
1. Demonstrate the use of a framework for discussing legal and ethical and controversial issues.
2. Demonstrate practice in internalizing, experiencing, and understanding various ethical situations that may arise as a practicing IT professional.
3. Understand the boundaries between what is technologically possible and what is socially responsible.
4. Apply conflict resolution to ethical disputes within groups, presentations, and QA sessions.
5. Apply policies and practices to state and local computer crime code topics, and appropriate behavior consequences.