SECURITY AWARENESS TRAINING PROGRAM There’s a huge ROI on security awareness training. A few years ago, a PriceWaterhouseCoopers report calculated the ROI of security awareness training as half a million dollars. Because most data security breaches involve human error, training can reduce the risk of having breaches. Each member of the workforce is a risk. The […]
Privacy and Cloud Services at Schools The following video provides important advice to parents about privacy and cloud services at schools. Note: Please contact us if you want to see the video. About Professor Solove and TeachPrivacy Professor Daniel J. Solove is a law professor at George Washington University Law School and the leading expert […]
Here is a handy chart to help you quickly locate key provisions in the GDPR. The GDPR is hundreds of pages long, and parsing through it isn’t easy. Thanks to the great effort of Maggie Gloeckle, this chart lists relevant parts of GDPR for various topics. It also lists where the GDPR references other […]
Social Media Training The frequent use of social media by employees has created a new domain of risk for employers – employees who reveal confidential or sensitive information or who otherwise say things that damage their institution’s reputation or create strife with their colleagues. Employees might make anonymous comments and think they are untraceable. They don’t […]
SECURITY AWARENESS TRAINING: ENCRYPTION Our recently relaunched data security training program, Encryption, is a short module (~4 minutes long) that consists of a short video and 4 quiz questions. The course discusses what encryption is, why it helps protect the security of data, and what employees can do to make encryption more effective and avoid […]
INFORMATION SECURITY AWARENESS TRAINING DATA BREACH Our recently relaunched information security awareness training program, Data Breach, is a short module (~4 minutes long) that consists of a short video and 4 quiz questions. The module can stand alone as a short awareness piece or be fused with other topics in a longer security awareness training program. […]
INFORMATION SECURITY AWARENESS TRAINING: EMAIL Our recently relaunched data security training program, Email, is a short module (~5 minutes long) that consists of a short video and 4 quiz questions. The course provides advice for how to use email carefully and how to detect dangerous email messages. The video demonstrates the perils of opening email […]
PHISHING PROTECTION AVOIDING PHISHERS, HACKERS, AND SOCIAL ENGINEERS “Social engineering” is the use of trickery to fool people into divulging confidential information or into facilitating unauthorized access into computers or accounts. Simply put, humans are easier to hack than machines. Hackers use a set of techniques that people will often fall for. Even the strongest […]
Cybersecurity Resources curated by Professor Daniel J. Solove Professor Solove’s Scholarship Daniel J. Solove and Danielle K. Citron, Risk and Anxiety: A Theory of Data Breach Harms Daniel J. Solove, Identity Theft, Privacy, and the Architecture of Vulnerability Professor Solove’s Blogs and Interviews Daniel J. Solove, The Future of Cybersecurity Insurance and Litigation: An […]
PRIVACY RESOURCES General What Is Privacy? – Professor Daniel Solove examines the question “What is privacy?” He believes that this is a central question to answer, because a conception of privacy underpins every attempt to address it and protect it. 10 Reasons Why Privacy Matters – In this blog article, Professor Solove addresses the question […]