CMPS 385B Legal Issues in Information Technology
The student will learn about the relevance of computer crime and intellectual property laws when a network is compromised. Analyze the new laws and cases on database breaches. Evaluate the policies and procedures enterprises must implement to protect proprietary data and IT resources. A highlight of this course is a legal review of the emerging topics of honeypots and active defenses, i.e., enterprises hacking back against hackers. By the end of the course, participants will have a functional knowledge of the issues that shape information security's evolving standard of due care. A key goal is to help students factor in legal concerns when they draft enterprise IT security policies. Students will debate what the words of an enterprise policy mean from a legal perspective.
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