Privacy and Security

Catalog description

Covers technical safeguards that can prevent disruption of service, data tampering and theft. Topics include risk assessment, management policies, authentication, encryption, digital signatures, authorization procedures, government standards, international law and vendor offerings. From a business perspective, the issue of what constitutes authorization for both collection and release of personal data is reviewed. To the extent that corporations have an ethical obligation not to sell or divulge customer data, safeguards and legal limitations to prevent this is also reviewed. Case studies, projects and research reports are used for evaluation.