Legal Issues of Cybersecurity and Data Breach Response

Catalog description

This course will provide an advanced look into the dynamic and rapidly evolving legal field of cybersecurity and data breach response and will focus on the workflow during the aftermath of any sort of data security incident. The course will be broken up into two parts. The first part of the course will provide a foundation in the legal aspects of data breach response, in the form of traditional lectures, current events discussion and with class participation. The second part of the course will focus on the many dynamic aspects of incident response in the form of an experiential exercise involving a fact pattern and a series of 'real-life' simulations. Students who have taken Law 855 Data Breach Response in Wintersession may not take this course.