Spring 2027

Cybersecurity Economics and Policy

Examines how cybersecurity incidents affect society and explores strategies to solve them using concepts from economics, sociology, psychology, and public policy.

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Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe clearly and effectively to non-expert audiences about security vulnerabilities and security-related incidents.

  • Evaluate common human-centered risks to information security and privacy by bringing relevant ideas from the social sciences to help us understand why people are behaving the way they are.

  • Develop awareness of the structure of the information security field, and career opportunities within it.

  • Develop strategies and sources for current awareness of security issues.

  • Discover patterns in cybersecurity incidents by looking at incidents from societal, legal, and policy perspectives.

  • Distinguish how cybersecurity challenges affect marginalized communities in different ways, using an information science perspective.

  • Analyze real-world cybersecurity case studies to gain professional competencies important for management of information organizations.

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LIS 512

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Examination of how cybersecurity incidents affect society and exploration for strategies to solve them. Use of concepts from economics, sociology, psychology, and public policy to understand patterns in current cybersecurity incidents and design policy solutions to current cybersecurity challenges.

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Topics

  • Economics, sociology, psychology, and public policy applied to cybersecurity
  • Impact of cybersecurity on marginalized communities
  • Information security field structure and careers

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  • Describing security vulnerabilities and incidents to non-expert audiences
  • Discovering patterns in cybersecurity incidents from societal, legal, and policy perspectives
  • Analyzing real-world cybersecurity case studies

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LIS 512 · Spring 2027

Cybersecurity Economics and Policy

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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