Securing the Open Cyber Door

The raging controversy surrounding the encryption of the iPhone is a wake-up call for us to enhance our business and personal cybersecurity practices. In this course, you will learn about the legal and social issues surrounding United States v. Apple, and how to identify your mission-critical information and protect it from hackers and cyber thieves. You will walk away learning the importance of privacy law in the twenty-first century and understanding what security really means.

Learning Objectives: 

I.     Address the FBI’s continuing efforts to decrypt the iPhone, including:  

• the legal impact of the adjournment of appellate hearings pending hacking and reverse engineering efforts, 
• the economic and societal goals of the technology industry and the government that lurk beneath these lawsuits

II.    Deploy best practices to secure the corporate environment

III.   Identify legal and technological challenges and solutions to protect sensitive information

IV.   Understand encryption: what it is, what it is not

V.    Recognize the importance of using social media securely to avoid disclosing confidential business information

VI.   Mitigate business risks in cyberspace

VII.  Evaluate cyberliability insurance policies

VIII. Grasp additional caveats about the cloud