Cybersec:Priv/PublicPersp

3 Credits · Level: Graduate

Cyber has long been a domain of international espionage, with ramifications for strategic, conventional, unconventional, and information warfare. Yet unlike other domains, it is an intimate part of our daily lives and one in which the domain itself—the global Internet particularly—is not owned or controlled by governments or truly neutral. To understand, anticipate, and act upon the national security ramifications of cybersecurity requires working with private sector experts and other stakeholders. This class will provide a framework for understanding national security issues affecting cyberspace and impart practical experience for interpreting the actions of the private sector that can affect national security decision-making and conversely provide insight and opportunity for those students who may wish to go more directly into the private sector and perform that work themselves using their SSP skillset.