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Cyber Law

• This Cyber Law class offers a broad knowledge of constitutional, civil, criminal, and related legal considerations that arise in the context of work or citizenship in an increasingly cyber and digital world.   
• It is beneficial whether I decide to see public work or private industry work, because it helps with gaining insights into limits and authorities on government or private sector activities. 
• This also includes the creation and protection of intellectual property, to the investigation of unlawful cyber activities, to the considerations of cyber operations in an increasingly dangerous world. 
• The broadened awareness helps to navigate and strengthen both my personal and professional choices now and in the future.

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Course Material

• The textbook for this class was “Cybersecurity and Privacy Law in a Nutshell” by Kenan and Hayes.
• There were also many videos and pdf documents to study from too.

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Discussions

• Below are several discussions posted in this class.
• My final project for the course, which was to be a memo to the Governor of a small country regarding recommendations for a private data policy, is an attachment to this page.  They were lacking any regulations and this is an analysis of some current privacy legislation and regulations in nearby areas.

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Discussion Board 4 – Use of a government-coordinated intrusion-prevention system on private networks

Jack Goldsmith’s 2010 essay, The Cyberthreat, Government Network Operations, and the Fourth Amendment is an assigned reading for Module 11. In his essay, he discusses the possibility of the Federal government mandating the use of a government-coordinated intrusion-prevention system to monitor all communications throughout networks in the United States, including private ones. Such monitoring, Goldsmith argues, is required to protect the U.S. against malicious cyber actors – and possibly a real cyber-attack.