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Cyber Law and Professional Ethics

IT Ethics and Cybersecurity provides the "logical" framework for the responsible use of "technical" resources and the protection of "Business Information Systems". It establishes a "structural hierarchy" of moral principles and "technical" defenses to ensure data integrity and user privacy.

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Cyber Law & Professional Ethics

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Course Title: Cyber Law & Professional Ethics

Course No: CACS401

Nature of the Course: THEORY

Semester: 7

Full Marks: 20 + 20 + 60

Pass Marks: 8 + 8 + 24

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description

Course Objectives

Course Contents

1. An Overview of Ethics, Ethics for IT Workers and IT Users

10 hrs

1.1. Ethics, Ethics in the Business World

1.2. Corporate Social Responsibility

1.3. Fostering Corporate Social Responsibility and Good Business Ethics

1.4. Improving Business Ethics

1.5. Ethical Considerations in Decision Making

1.6. Ethics in Information Technology

1.7. Managing IT Worker Relationships

1.8. Encouraging Professionalism of IT Workers – Professional Codes of Ethics

1.9. Professional Organizations, Certifications and Licensing

1.10. Encouraging Ethical Use of IT Resources among Users

2. Cyberattacks, Cybersecurity, and Cyber Law

12 hrs

2.1. Threat Landscape – Computer Incidents, Types of Exploits

2.2. CIA Security Triad – Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability

2.3. Implementing CIA at Organizational, Network, Application, and End-User Level

2.4. Response to Cyberattack - Incident Notification

2.5. Protection of Evidence and Activity Logs

2.6. Incident Containment Eradication Incident Follow-Up

2.7. Using an MSSP, and Computer Forensics

2.8. Cyber Law; Provision of Cyber Law and Electronic Transaction Act of Nepal

3. Privacy and Freedom of Expression

10 hrs

3.1. Privacy Protection and the Law - Information Privacy, Privacy Laws

3.2. Applications, and Court Rulings

3.3. Key Privacy and Anonymity Issues – Consumer Profiling

3.4. Electronic Discovery, Workplace Monitoring, Surveillance

3.5. First Amendment Rights

3.6. Freedom Expressions: Key Issues

3.7. Social Networking Ethical Issues

4. Intellectual Property

8 hrs

4.1. Intellectual Property, Copyright, Patent, Trade Secrets

4.2. Intellectual Property Issues: Plagiarism, Reverse Engineering

4.3. Open Source Code, Competitive Intelligence, Trademark Infringement, and Cybersquatting

5. Ethical Decision in Software Development and Ethics of IT Organizations

8 hrs

5.1. Software Quality and its Importance

5.2. Strategies for Developing Quality Software

5.3. Use of Contingent Workers

5.4. H-1B Workers

5.5. Outsourcing

5.6. Whistle-Blowing

5.7. Green Computing

Reference Books

1.Ethics in Information Technology, Sixth Edition, George W. Reynolds
2.Ethics and Technology: Controversies, Questions, and Strategies for Ethical Computing, Fifth Edition, Herman T. Tavani, John Wiley and Sons, 2016
3.Ethics for Information Age, Eighth Edition, Michael J. Quinn, Pearson

Notes:

Source:

This course presents different concepts of cyber law, cybersecurity, and ethics for IT professionals and IT Organizations. This course also presents different concepts related to intellectual properties and their protections, privacy, and social networking issues.

The primary objective of this course is to provide knowledge of cyber law, cybersecurity, privacy protection, intellectual property protection, and ethics for IT professionals and IT organizations.

This syllabus follows the official BCA curriculum of Tribhuvan University. In case of any doubt or revision, the university's published syllabus shall be considered authoritative.