Cybersecurity and protection of personal data: legal and policies issues

The objective of this course is to introduce the essential elements of cybersecurity and technical and organisational measures in the light of data protection regulations in EU, compared to USA and China approach to cybersecurity. The course is structured in legal and computer science lectures, in order to provide a better understanding of different situations where processing a personal data can trigger some legal considerations.

The student will have knowledge and understanding of the fundamental legal principles concerning cybersecurity and protection of personal data from different perspectives; autonomous ability to read the new European standards on data protection and platforms regulations; ability to understand the goals and technological motivations that led to their adoption; ability to understand the implementation rationale of the new regulatory framework. The student will also be able to identify privacy risks in different proposed scenarios (marketing, cloud computing, IoT), and to propose and evaluate solutions to mitigate such risks.