Security Legal Issues

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  • You have just completed 10 weeks of an information security legal issues course.  Imagine you have been asked to create a one-day training course highlighting the important elements of what you have just learned in the past 10 weeks.
    • Create a hierarchy of five (no more or no less) of the most important topics that you feel need to be addressed in this one-day course that best fits the course title of “Information Security Legal Issues: The Essentials Presented in One Day.”  Give a detailed rationale for each of the five topics.

Week1Summarize the legal aspects of the information security triad: availability, integrity, and confidentiality.

Week2Explain the concept of privacy and its legal protections.  Describe the basic components of the American Legal System.

Week3Explain the concept of privacy and its legal protections.  Describe legal compliance laws addressing public and private institutions.

Week4Explain the concept of privacy and its legal protections.  Describe legal compliance laws addressing public and private institutions.

Week5Describe legal compliance laws addressing public and private institutions.  Examine the principles requiring governance of information within organizations.

Week6Describe legal compliance laws addressing public and private institutions.  Analyze intellectual property laws.

Week7Differentiate the role of contracts in online transactions and cyberspace.  Identify cybercrime and tort law, and ethical issues in cyberspace.

Week8Examine the principles requiring governance of information within organizations.

Week9Identify risk analysis and incident response procedures.

Week10Explain the importance of forensics examination in legal proceedings.

“Course Summary” Please respond to the following:

  • Discuss how you can apply the learning outcomes of this course to your professional and personal life.
  • Using 140 characters or less (the length of a Tweet), summarize the importance of this class to someone unfamiliar with the concepts.

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