CYSE 200T - Cybersecurity, Technology & Society

This course allowed me further improve my critical thinking skills by viewing different ways technology can impact other domains and how other disciplines may view or see the impacts differently.  Throughout this course, we were given multiple writing assignments that enforced our understanding of how technology can impact many aspects of society.  

 

I really enjoyed this course because I already  have a natural tendency to view things through an interdisciplinary lens due to my broad interests, employment experience, and educational background.  The different writing assignments allowed me to practice thinking from an interdisciplinary perspective, broadening the way I look at topics and problems in the future, especially regarding technology. 

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The following artifact demonstrates the interdisciplinary thinking we were tasked with in this course.  For this assignment, I was tasked with writing a small paper that answered the following question:  What do you believe will be the biggest challenge/threat related to cybersecurity in the next 20 years? 

 

I explain why I believe government overreach through use of big technology companies will be the biggest threat and how it will impact other parts of society.  I included this artifact because I feel it is a good example of the types of assignments we were tasked with, the way we were expected to anticipate the impact to areas outside of cybersecurity, and how technology impacts society as a whole.