Cyber Security Ethics

Welcome to the CANVAS MOOC

The CANVAS MOOC has been published in 2019. It makes the main insights of the CANVAS Project available to the public. The MOOC covers principles and challenges in the fields of cyber security, privacy, and trust from technical, legal, and ethical perspectives. Concrete case studies from health, business, and national security spheres are presented. The material consists of recorded videos and quizzes with instant feedback.

You can access the MOOC via this site for free without having to sign up. Redistribution of the material is not allowed unless you have obtained consent. Questions concerning the MOOC may be directed to Prof. Dr. Dominik Herrmann.

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1. Introduction
- Welcome
  - Course Structure
- Problem Landscape
2. Fundamentals
- Part Overview
  - Part Overview
- Cybersecurity Fundamentals
  - Cybersecurity Fundamentals
- Ethics Fundamentals
  - Ethics Fundamentals
3. Applying Ethics to Cybersecurity
- Part Overview
  - Part Overview
- Ethical Frameworks
  - Ethical Frameworks for Cybersecurity
  - Problem: Manfred Broy on a related dilemma regarding autonomous cars
- Cybersecurity and EU Values
  - EU Cybersecurity Objectives and Challenges in Light of EU Values
- Value Conflicts
  - Value Conflicts in Cybersecurity
  - Problem: Ninja Marnau on running a honey pot for research
4. Technical and Legal Aspects of Privacy
5. Business
- Part Overview
  - Part Overview
- Introductory Video
  - Stakeholder Values in Cybersecurity in Business
- Problems: Handling Incidents
- Supplemental Material
  - Supplemental Material
  - Oksana Kulyk on the challenge of making security and privacy usable
6. Vulnerability Discovery and Disclosure
7. Healthcare
8. Law Enforcement and National Security
9. Cybersecurity and Democracy
- Part Overview
  - Part Overview
- Introductory Video
  - Political Disinformation, Freedom of Communication and the Role of Epistemic Institutions in Cyberspace
- Problems
  - Alexander von Gernler on trust in the computing stack and the impact on democracy and society
  - Gari Walkowitz on problems with autonomous decisions
- Supplemental Material
  - Supplemental Material
  - Gari Walkowitz on individual and corporate moral hypocrisy

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