Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: outline the fundamentals of cyberspace and how it works; identify the cyber domain’s five key gateways to its vulnerability to cyber threats; distinguish between DDoS attacks, trojans, and botnets and determine common defense mechanisms to these threats; categorize the different types of cybercrime and determine how law enforcement is fighting back; contrast the “good” and “bad” hacktivists and illustrate the three major types of hacktivists; compare and contrast the different views of whether government oversight of cybersecurity is necessary; analyze the barriers to effective international governance of the internet; determine how the United States constitution limits but does not prohibit the government’s monitoring of the internet; formulate how U.S. privacy laws should evolve with new technologies; analyze encryption and wiretapping work in cyberspace; assess the “going dark” phenomenon; identify the dangers hidden in computer hardware; illustrate the ways to reduce risks of danger online in professional and personal situations; and analyze alternative approaches to cybersecurity.