ITX8050 Kerttunen

ITX8050 Special Course in Cyber Security (3 ECP)

2015 Spring semester

Location: Tallinn

Time: TBD

Objectives and purpose

Upon successful completion of the course the students have gained conceptual and analytical understanding of the underlying political and strategic considerations of national cyber policies and strategies as well as of international cyber diplomacy. This understanding will help students better to contextualize and anticipate national level policies and decision-making affecting technological development.

Scope and methodology

The objectives will be reached through analytical examination of national ICT and cyber policies and strategies as well as respective national political, strategic and industrial-technological interests. The series of lectures, discussions and structured seminars together with readings and writing assignments make students to analytically examine past and current and outline and argue for future cyber policies and strategies. Particular attention is paid to Estonian cyber policy, strategy and development programs.

Lecturers

D.Soc.Sc. Mika Kerttunen, Cyber Policy Institute

D.Jur. Eneken Tikk-Ringas, International Institute for Strategic Studies

Syllabus (36 h, with tentative number of academic hours) LECTURES (26 h)

- The epistemic orientations, methodologies and argumentation in social and political sciences (2)
- Information and communication technologies and the cyber domain (3)
- The peaceful and malicious use of ICTs including development and military purposes (3)
- National cyber strategies, doctrines and development programs (9)
- International internet governance (4)
- International organizations as cyber diplomacy fora (4)
- Estonian cyber policy, strategy and capability development (2)

SEMINARS (5 h)

- International strategic leads in policy and capability development (5)

READINGS

- To be defined

EXAM (4h) - Written exam on one broad topic (with 3 optional topics)