Legal and Security Issues

Course Description

This course offers an overview of the legal processes involved in implementing and maintaining an e-commerce Web site. In addition, this course examines security issues involved in maintaining a Web or intranet/Internet site and potentials for misuse.

Major Instructional Areas

  1. Legal aspects of information security concepts
  2. Privacy laws and issues
  3. The American Legal System
  4. Laws addressing information security and privacy
  5. Intellectual property rights and cyberspace law
  6. Risk analysis, incident response, and network forensics investigations

Course Objectives

  1. Recognize the legal aspects of the information security triad: availability, integrity, and confidentiality.
  2. Examine the concept of privacy and its legal protections.
  3. Identify the basic components of the American Legal System.
  4. Describe legal compliance laws addressing public and private institutions.
  5. Analyze intellectual property laws.
  6. Describe the role of contracts in online transactions and cyberspace.
  7. Identify cybercrime and tort law Issues in cyberspace.
  8. Examine the principles requiring governance of information within organizations.
  9. Identify risk analysis and incident response procedures.
  10. Explain the importance of forensics examination in legal proceedings.



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For the Student:

  • Legal Issues in Information Security, a fully developed textbook, available in print or as an online eTextbook through CourseSmart.com
  • Laboratory Manual to accompany Legal Issues in Information Security, available in print of as an expressPDF
  • Hands-on applied labs - Provides hands-on exercises, each with measurable learning outcomes.
        -- Paper-based Labs
        -- Video Demo Labs
        -- Hands-on, Scenario-based Equipment Labs
        -- Online hands-on labs using vLearning Cloud technology

For the Instructor:

  • PowerPoint Lecture Slides - customize to fit your course
  • Test Items
  • Instructor's Guide - Available for textbook and lab manual
  • Sample Course Syllabus
  • Case Scenarios/Handouts