IT Ethics and Cybersecurity syllabus

IT Ethics and Cybersecurity

• 1 An Overview of Ethics (5 LHs)

  • Business and IT ethics
  • Corporate social responsibility
  • Ethics in decisions
• 2 Ethics for IT Workers and IT Users (5 LHs)

  • IT worker professionalism and relationships
  • Ethical use of IT resources
  • Privacy, anonymity and social networking issues
• 3 Intellectual Property (6 LHs)

  • Copyright, patent and trade secrets
  • Plagiarism, reverse engineering and open source
  • Trademarks and cybersquatting
• 4 Ethical Decision in Software Development and Ethics of IT Organizations (5 LHs)

  • Software quality
  • Contingent work and outsourcing
  • Whistle-blowing and green computing
• 5 Fundamentals of Cybersecurity (6 LHs)

  • Cyberspace and cybersecurity perspectives
  • Technological/economic shifts and outsourcing
  • Cyberattacks, poisoned services and infrastructure
  • Attacker techniques and colored hats
• 6 Personal Cybersecurity (5 LHs)

  • Home, mobile and IoT security posture
  • Physical security and working from home
  • Accounts and passwords
• 7 Social Engineering and Cyber Terrorism (5 LHs)

  • Social engineering attack phases and countermeasures
  • Cyber-terrorism types, effects and response
• 8 Digital Forensics (7 LHs)

  • Forensic stages and digital evidence
  • Evidence collection, seizure and protection
  • Recovery and mobile forensics
  • Legal aspects and Nepalese context
• 9 Cyber Law in Context of Nepal (4 LHs)

  • Cybercrime legal perspective
  • Electronic Transaction Act and Rules
  • IT and information-security policy
• 10 Laboratory Work

  • Network scanning and packet sniffing
  • Web vulnerability identification: SQL injection and XSS
  • Social-engineering/phishing lab and password cracking
  • Firewall configuration and incident response