Cybersecurity for Business

Description

This course exposes students to Information Security topics as related to the accounting profession. We will highlight the NIST cybersecurity framework for understanding accounting’s role in enhancing information security and responsibilities for reporting and responding to information security issues. Students will analyze cases, work with information security data, and discuss how information security is an integral part of all business functions. Additionally, we will investigate various contemporary information security issues facing business and society and the impacts on the accounting profession.