Ethics
Ethics is the general education course I am taking now, and it is still in progress. It is not a technology course, but it has turned out to be one of the more useful classes for the way I actually think about my work in security and vulnerability management. Each unit introduces a moral framework and then asks you to apply it to a real situation and defend the conclusion, so the point is less about memorizing definitions and more about reasoning clearly when values, not just facts, are on the line.
What the course covers
The early units build the vocabulary: the difference between a descriptive claim about what people do and a normative claim about what they should do, and why an ethical argument rests on a value claim rather than facts alone. From there each week adds a lens. Divine command theory, then W. D. Ross and his prima facie duties, then utilitarianism weighed against Kantian duty, then Aristotle's virtue theory and practical wisdom, then the ethics of care and its relationship to justice. The current unit works through natural law and the idea that a role has a purpose, or telos.
That last idea landed hardest. If the purpose of my role is protecting systems and the people who depend on them, then cutting a security corner or misusing privileged access contradicts the work itself, whether or not anyone would ever notice.
Takeaway
The honest connection to my field is the gap between facts and values. A scanner tells me a vulnerability is real, but no finding by itself tells me I ought to report it or how to weigh it against speed and convenience. That step needs a framework. This course gave me several, and the practice of choosing one on purpose is the part I expect to keep.