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BCA Cyber Law & Professional Ethics

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Cyber Law & Professional Ethics

Subject Code: CACS401

Course Title: Cyber Law & Professional Ethics

Course No: CACS401

Nature of Course: Theory & Practical

Full Marks: 60+40

Pass Marks: 24+16

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description

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.

Course Objective

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.

Course Contents

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 Cyberattack - 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-1B Workers, Outsourcing, Whistle-Blowing, Green Computing

Text 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.