Course Information
Course Description
The General Data Protection Regulation came into force across the EU on May 25, 2018. It applies to the acquisition, handling and processing of EU residents’ personal data, regardless of where they are or where that data is acquired, processed, or stored. It’s wide-ranging and contains significant penalty provisions. Banks and other financial services firms are certainly accustomed to dealing with regulations. This regulation represents the biggest change in privacy law in decades.
In this program, attorney and information security consultant Scott Aurnou discusses the GDPR and the fundamental steps needed to comply with it, including pertinent privacy and security measures. He will provide an overview of related privacy and data security concepts, outline the Regulation’s key provisions, and highlight steps needed to achieve compliance and secure customers’ personal data.
Learning Objectives:
- Break down essential privacy and related security concepts
- Develop a broad understanding of the GDPR
- Recognize the primary concerns for financial services regarding the GDPR
- Appreciate fundamental steps needed to achieve compliance and secure customers’ personal data
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Faculty
Scott Aurnou
The Security Advocate
Scott Aurnou, Esq., CISSP is an attorney and founder of The Security Advocate, which helps organizations with information security and data privacy issues. This includes privacy and security awareness training, security consulting, compliance with cyber security and privacy laws and related legal concerns.
Scott spent over a decade as a litigation attorney in the NYC area, and served as lead counsel for a private client services group at Smith Barney. He uses his legal, security, and business background to make complex information security concepts easy to understand (and even entertaining on occasion) for non-technical audiences. He has published security related articles in national publications ranging from the New York Law Journal to SC Magazine. In addition, he has created and delivered numerous presentations on information security and data privacy issues for executives, managers, and professionals.
Scott is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT), Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and a Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP). He is admitted to practice law in New York, Colorado, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York; as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He is also the author of the Introduction to Information Security LiveLessons video training series for Pearson Publishing.
Reviews
Very knowledgeable instructor who made this very dry material almost interesting!
Speaker was so well versed in the topic. I like that he provided links to his favorite resources as well.
Excellent materials and presentation!
Excellent speaker, excellent course, A+
Very good presentation on the GDPR and its applicability to US businesses. The presenter made what I thought would be a dry subject very interesting. Good overview of the GDPR for any attorney.
Very helpful
Presenter had a pleasant and engaging demeanor. Presented information in a manner that's easy to understand.
Presenter had a very pleasant smile and demeanor. Rather enjoyable to watch.
Outstanding program. Outstanding presentation. Passionate, humorous, articulate, expert in his field.
Wonderful presentation
The best course I have watched on Lawline hands down!
Amazing amount of information!
Excellent content.
Scott was an excellent presenter - clearly knowledgeable and with the ability to translate complicated technical material in a way that made sense to non-technical audience members. Really enjoyed his use of analogies and examples. Outstanding.
Scott is excellent!
Great presentation and engaging speaker
Excellent
The speaker was very knowledgeable. The subject was extremely interesting and timely. Thank you.
Very clear and informative on complex topic
Thumbs up
superb exposure to various technical concepts I had heard of but did not understand and VERY helpful to have explanation. Instructor very good at explaining a complex area.
Keep up the good job
Very thorough!!
Great presentation of timely topic!
Very educational.
Enjoyable and informative
this was a modern area a lot of people are talking about. really interesting.
Very comprehensive. Well thought out presentation. Highly knowledgeable presenter.
Excellent program. Thank you.
I did not know anything about the GDPR before attending this CLE, so this was very helpful.
Best
Outstanding presentation.
interesting course - thank you
Interesting!
Thank you!
Excellent speaker, very knowledgeable (without being dry and boring!!) and very informative.
great GDPR overview
Very informative and helpful high-level overview with suggested resources for those who wish to obtain additional information.
That was extremely well designed and presented.
The speaker made unfamiliar material understandable--great job!
One of the better speakers and CLEs - very timely and relevant. Keep up the financial/banking related CLEs!
Appreciated the conversational tone.