CYBERSECURITY & SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNAL ENTRIES
- Week 1- Review the NICE Workforce Framework. Are there certain areas that you would want to focus your career on? Explain which areas would appeal the most to you and which would appeal the least.
Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework) | NICCS (cisa.gov)Links to an external site.
- Week 2 – Explain how the principles of science relate to cybersecurity.
- Week 3 – Visit PrivacyRights.org to see the types of publicly available information about data breaches. How might researchers use this information to study breaches? Enter a paragraph in your journal.
- Week 4 – Review Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and explain how each level relates to your experiences with technology. Give specific examples of how your digital experiences relate to each level of need.
- Week 5 – Review the articles linked with each individual motive in the presentation page or Slide #4. Rank the motives from 1 to 7 as the motives that you think make the most sense (being 1) to the least sense (being 7). Explain why you rank each motive the way you rank it.
- Week 6 – Can you spot three fake websites and compare the three fake websites to three real websites, plus showcase what makes the fake websites fake?
- Week 7 – Review the following ten photos through a human-centered cybersecurity framework. Create a meme for your favorite three, explaining what is going on in the individual’s or individuals’ mind(s).



- Week 8 – After watching the video, write a journal entry about how you think the media influences our understanding about cybersecurity
- Week 9 – On the discussion board post an entry about how the video relates to something you read for this class – either from the readings or this module. Respond to two other student’s discussion board entries.
- Week 10 –
- Read this and write a journal entry summarizing your response to the article on social cybersecurity
- Week 10, Entry 11 – think about how the description of the cybersecurity analyst job relates to social behaviors. Write a paragraph describing social themes that arise in the presentation.
- Week 11, Entry 12 – Read this https://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Glasswasherparts.com_.pdfLinks to an external site. sample breach letter “SAMPLE DATA BREACH NOTIFICATION” and describe how two different economics theories and two different social sciences theories relate to the letter.
- Week 11, Entry 13 – Read this article https://academic.oup.com/cybersecurity/article/7/1/tyab007/6168453?login=trueLinks to an external site. and write a summary reaction to the use of the policies in your journal. Focus primarily on the literature review and the discussion of the findings.
- Week 12 Entry, 14 – Andriy Links to an external site.SlynchukLinks to an external site. Links to an external site.has described eleven things Internet users do that may be illegal. Review what the author says and write a paragraph describing the five most serious violations and why you think those offenses are serious.
- Week 15 Entry 15 – Watch this video and think about how the career of digital forensics investigators relate to the social sciences. Write a journal entry describing what you think about the speaker’s pathway to his career.