MACC - 507. Data Security, Privacy, and Ethics in Cybersecurity

3 credit(s)
This course will provide an overview of data security, privacy concerns, and ethics. Data security seeks to protect government, corporate, and individual information. Data security will be addressed as a continuous issue in data management, and the challenge it poses as the uses for data expand. Areas where information technology and privacy meet are also covered. 

Data ethics is included as a critical topic in terms of privacy, data manipulation, data sharing and ownership, conflict of interest, and communications. This course will utilize case studies, trends, techniques, and best practices as it examines the topics of data quality, data security, and ethical questions associated with dealing in data.

Permission: Permission of the Director of the Master of Science in Accounting Program required.
Attribute: BUS, MSAE, NOEX