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PSCI-4074: The Politics of Cybersecurity

Description: Analyses the politics of cybercrime, cyberwar, and the challenges of producing effective cybersecurity. Topics include the economics of cybersecurity, the cross-border nature of global cybercrime, encryption and anonymity-granting technologies, targeting critical national infrastructure, network investigative techniques, cybersecurity measurement, politics of zero-day vulnerabilities, and the process of providing effective cybersecurity at the individual, organizational, subnational, and national levels.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: IS-3044 or PSCI-3044

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: IS-4074

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 2

Average GPA: 3.13 (B+)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 30.00%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.00%

Aaron F Brantly202380.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%20.0%0.0%3.141
Eric H Jardine202171.4%0.0%28.6%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.131

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