Cyber Security Education and Law

The Cyberspace presents enormous challenges to computer professionals. In addition to enhancing education in security, reliability, and privacy, it is important for students to have more understanding of ethics, law, policy, regulation, and responsible software development. This paper suggests the necessity of a course Law for Computer Professionals and a relevant curriculum that includes: legal aspects, ethical aspects, and professional responsibility. Student legal awareness of Privacy and Intellectual Property is very important because it affects every computer professional, and also brings one into contact with moral, philosophy and ethical issues. Curricular guidelines by the IEEE and ACM are addressed. Various study topics, for instance, on privacy and on patents, are demonstrated.