| | Course Syllabus - IST 452 Legal and |
| | Regulatory Environment of Privacy and Security |
| | General Course Information |
| | Department | IST |
| | Number | 452 |
| | Title | Legal and Regulatory Environment of Privacy and Security |
| | Credits | 3 |
| | Description | Institutional constraints on security historically focused on |
| | traditional criminal enforcement and a slow but steady increase |
| | in civil remedies through the twentieth century. Professional |
| | security protection could satisfy reasonable assurance criteria |
| | by managing legal and regulatory risks based on commonly-held |
| | understandings of burglary, theft, conversion and widely- |
| | understood but related institutional constraints in the protection |
| | of physical property. This focus retained effectiveness so long |
| | as physical security over tangible property appeared successful, |
| | even extending to the maintenance of control over mainframe |
| | computers and their peripherals. However, the proliferation of |
| | networked computers has made access and storage ubiquitous, |
| | vastly increasing the vulnerability of confidential data, private |
| | information and critical national security infrastructure. Security |
| | and privacy regulation compliance responsibility now falls much |
| | more harshly on both organizations and most of their individual |
| | personnel. These complex new duties constrain organizations in |
| | the data management industry as well as suppliers and users of |
| | data and all participants in the information supply chain, including |
| | consultants, software suppliers, applications service providers, |
| | maintenance, outsourcing and communications providers. |
| | |
| | Other factors exacerbate these liability risk management |
| | difficulties. Advances in network computer storage and use, the |
| | broadening perception of heightened value of information and the |
| | pervasive availability of rich data warehousing increase the |
| | vulnerability of data management. Risks of information theft and |
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