Cyber Law and Professional Ethics

Unit 1: An Overview of Ethics, Ethics for IT Workers and IT Users (10 hrs) Ethics, Ethics in the Business World; Corporate Social Responsibility; Fostering Corporate Social Responsibility and Good Business Ethics; Improving Business Ethics; Ethical Considerations in Decision Making; Ethics in Information Technology; Managing IT Worker Relationship; Encouraging Professionalism of IT Workers — Professional Codes of Ethics, Professional Organizations, Certifications and Licensing; Encouraging Ethical Use of IT Resources among Users Unit 2: Cyberattacks, Cybersecurity, and Cyber Law (12 hrs) Threat Landscape — Computer Incidents, Types of Exploits; CIA Security Triad; Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, Implementing CIA at Organizational, Network, Application, and End-User Level; Response to Cyber Attack – Incident Notification Protection of Evidence and Activity Logs Incident Containment Eradication Incident Follow-Up Using an MSSP, and Computer Forensics; Cyber Law; Provision of Cyber Law and Electronic Transaction Act of Nepal Unit 3: Privacy and Freedom of Expression (10 hrs) Privacy Protection and the Law – Information Privacy, Privacy Laws, Applications, and Court Rulings; Key Privacy and Anonymity Issues Consumer Profiling, Electronic Discovery, Workplace Monitoring, Surveillance; First Amendment Rights; Freedom Expressions: Key Issues; Social Networking Ethical Issues Unit 4: Intellectual Property (8 hrs) Intellectual Property, Copyright; Patient; Trade Secrets; Intellectual Property Issues: Plagiarism, Reverse Engineering, Open Source Code, Competitive Intelligence, Trademark Infringement, and Cybersquatting Unit 5: Ethical Decision in Software Development and Ethics of IT Organizations (8 hrs) Software Quality and its Importance; Strategies for Developing Quality Software; Use of Contingent Workers; H-IB Workers; Outsourcing; Whistle-Blowing; Green Computing