Data Security and Privacy PolicyCornell Certificate Program
Course list
Cybersecurity requires more than just laws and regulations. To ensure the protection of data systems and operations, your organization must embrace a culture of compliance, employ best practices, and remain alert. Once you define the types of cyber risks your organization faces, the next step is to cultivate a culture aimed at safeguarding against them. In this course, you will gain an understanding of the importance of collaboration, both internally and externally. You will recognize how establishing a shared sense of responsibility can be the start of your best defense against cyber threats and attacks. Finally, you will examine cybersecurity best practices and explore how to adopt those that best fit your organization.
You are required to have completed the following courses or have equivalent experience before taking this course:
- Privacy Structure and Risk Assessment
- Privacy Incidents
- Examining Cybersecurity Governance
- Business and Cybersecurity in Practice
How It Works
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Key Course Takeaways
- Identify the privacy protection structure in your organization
- Assess your readiness to safeguard private data
- Respond to a data crisis
- Continuously prepare for the unexpected
- Recognize the principal framework that governs cybersecurity
- Examine the discretion that is involved within the regulatory framework as it applies to your organization
- Explore how third-party actions as well as your own can impede business objectives
- Anticipate changes in an ever-evolving system of operational security practices and adapt accordingly
- Identify threats and vulnerabilities both internal and external to your business
- Promote a cybersecurity culture and examine best practices

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What You'll Earn
- Data Security and Privacy Policy Certificate from Cornell Law School
- 50 Professional Development Hours (5.0 CEUs)
Who Should Enroll
- IT professionals
- Marketing professionals
- Managers and executives
- Product development professionals
- Data scientists
- Professionals responsible for cybersecurity and privacy-related concerns
- HR professionals
- Legal professionals
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Data Security and Privacy Policy
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