• Welcome to cybersecurity!!! The goal of this course is to introduce students to the foundational concepts, principles, and tools of cybersecurity. The course is centered on the Cybersecurity Curriculum Guidelines and is thus situated in eight big ideas: ethics, establishing trust, ubiquitous connectivity, data security, system security, adversarial thinking, risk, and implications. After this course, students should understand that cybersecurity has broad implications and ethical reflection and judgment are required. Students should also understand the fundamental cybersecurity principles necessary to determine security requirements and mechanisms. Students will also study historical events and their cybersecurity implications; relevant laws and policies governing data; and economic concerns and risk management trade-offs involved in making cybersecurity decisions from various stakeholder perspectives. Students will challenge assumptions and practice thinking about opposing forces and will employ these techniques to analyze threats, vulnerabilities, and attacks. Students will also evaluate the tools used to connect cyber-physical systems and practice using the encryption techniques needed to secure data across networks.