Cybersecurity

Catalog description

In a seminar format, this course will introduce tenets of cybersecurity as it unfolds in multiple contexts: from legal, business, economic, and technical perspectives. This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to explain how cybersecurity law has developed and the challenges all attorney face in this rapidly developing area. This class also provides theoretical and practical introductions to the distinctions between privacy and cybersecurity, technical foundations needed to understand the challenges of securing complex systems, and an introduction to the legal concepts that motivate cybersecurity law and policy. This class also introduces processes and frameworks used by private and public institutions to manage cybersecurity programs as industry standards and best practices, and will help students engage in discussion about cybersecurity from a risk management perspective, essential both to business decisions and court outcomes.