Ethics and Cybersecurity

When:  Sep 19, 2018 from 12:00 to 13:30 (PT)
Associated with  Victoria Chapter

Presentation Overview:

The cybersecurity landscape is extremely dynamic. Cybersecurity is booming and quite immature; it faces serious shortfall of skilled cybersecurity graduates and therefore focuses mostly on developing individuals’ cybersecurity knowledge to put talent on the front line as quickly as possible. Lacking context on cybersecurity ethics, individuals must defer to their own personal moral compass that is often unexplored in the context of digital age. The moral principles that govern a person’s behavior are a critical factor of any sound cybersecurity defense strategy; without clear ethical standards, cybersecurity professionals may be hard to distinguish from the black-hat criminals against whom they seek to protect systems and data. There is no simple solution to the many complex ethical dilemmas IT professionals, Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and organizations face on a daily basis. We will briefly look at the varied array of approaches to the study of ethics in cybersecurity; we will explore some examples of ethical violations and the research that highlights the cybersecurity disconnect with the wider society.

 

BIO: Alena Kottova M.A., M.Sc., Ph.D.
Born and raised in communist Czechoslovakia, Alena completed her advanced degree in Physics and Philosophy. She managed to escape and settle in Canada, gather varied experience including working at the Ontario Science Centre as a simulation scientist and testing programmer at the Challenger Learning Centre. She has worked as a web and GUI application developer for IBM and other companies, as well as a Chief Mad Scientist at the Mad Science Vancouver Island among others. Alena completed her Ph.D. at the University of Victoria in the area of Science and Technology Education. She is an award-winning researcher and teaches courses in Technology and Society at the Faculty of Engineering of University of Victoria and the Computing Science Department of Vancouver Island University. Having grown up in a totalitarian regime, she feels strongly about issues of Ethics and Privacy and believes Information Security is as much about people as it is about technology. In her teaching, she concentrates on research and education in areas of Machine Learning & Information Ethics, Cybersecurity & Privacy and History and Philosophy of Technology.

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Location

Union Club of BC
805 Gordon Street - McKenzie Room
Victoria, BC V8W1Z6