Short Paper: Debating Ethics with Cybersecurity Students
- We aim to debate and eventually be able to carefully judge how realistic the following statement of a young computer scientist is: “I would like to become an ethical correctly acting offensive cybersecurity expert”. The objective of this article is not to judge what is good and what is wrong behavior nor to present an overall solution to ethical dilemmas. Instead, the goal is to become aware ofWe aim to debate and eventually be able to carefully judge how realistic the following statement of a young computer scientist is: “I would like to become an ethical correctly acting offensive cybersecurity expert”. The objective of this article is not to judge what is good and what is wrong behavior nor to present an overall solution to ethical dilemmas. Instead, the goal is to become aware of the various personal moral dilemmas a security expert may face during his work life. For this, a total of 14 cybersecurity students from HS Offenburg were asked to evaluate several case studies according to different ethical frameworks. The results and particularities are discussed, considering different ethical frameworks. We emphasize, that different ethical frameworks can lead to different preferred actions and that the moral understanding of the frameworks may differ even from student to student.…
Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
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Conference Type: | Konferenzartikel |
Zitierlink: | https://opus.hs-offenburg.de/8500 | Bibliografische Angaben |
Title (English): | Short Paper: Debating Ethics with Cybersecurity Students |
Conference: | Jahrestagung des Fachbereichs Sicherheit der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (11. : 5.-8. April 2022 : Karlsruhe) |
Author: | Jan BreigStaff MemberGND, Dirk WesthoffStaff MemberGND |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Creating Corporation: | Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) |
First Page: | 183 |
Last Page: | 192 |
Parent Title (English): | Sicherheit, Schutz und Zuverlässigkeit: Sicherheit 2022 : Sicherheit, Schutz und Zuverlässigkeit : Konferenzband der 11. Jahrestagung des Fachbereichs Sicherheit der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) |
Editor: | Christian Wressnegger, Delphine Reinhardt, Thomas Barber, Bernhard C. Witt, Daniel Arp, Zoltan Mann |
Volume: | Lecture Notes in Informatics P-323 |
ISBN: | 978-3-88579-717-3 |
ISSN: | 1617-5468 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.18420/sicherheit2022_12 |
Language: | English | Inhaltliche Informationen |
Institutes: | Fakultät Medien (M) (ab 22.04.2021) |
Collections of the Offenburg University: | Bibliografie |
Tag: | cybersecurity; ethical frameworks; offensive security techniques | Formale Angaben |
Open Access: | Open Access |
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Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY-SA - Namensnennung - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 International |