This 2-day program from IP3 provides the foundation every IT professional needs in order to do business in this heavily regulated world. Today’s IT professional is under tremendous pressure to protect their company’s intellectual property, comply with data protection regulations, prevent cybercrime from negatively impacting their company, and avoid liability for negligence and other torts. In short, they need to understand the law. This program provides a broad-based, vendor-neutral cyberlaw education to provide students with a working knowledge of these important issues and discusses their relevance to the current regulations. IT professionals need to stay abreast of the law just to do their jobs.
IT professionals at all levels need to be able to answer the following questions:
- What is a company liable for?
- What is personally identifiable information?
- What are the types of intellectual property and the ways in which to protect them?
- What counts as admissible evidence?
- How can companies avoid negligence and other torts?
- What are the criteria for enforceable contracts?
These questions and many others are answered in CyberLaw Foundations for IT Professionals.
Topics Covered
- Forensics
- Auditing
- Torts
- Contract law
- Privacy law
- Intellectual property law
- Cybercrime
With CyberLaw Foundations for IT Professionals, students will obtain a working knowledge of these topics. In addition, the foundations course covers how these subjects are relevant in current regulations including Sarbanes-Oxley, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Other training programs feature these regulations, but they do not provide the legal foundations for understanding them. It is only through understanding their legal foundation that compliance with these regulations is possible.