It’s Thursday and that means it’s tutorial time again in the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC) "EU and Global Cybersecurity Fundamentals" course within the Advanced Master in Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Management! This afternoon, we will stimulate the students to operationalise the knowledge gained during Fernando Silva’s lecture on Monday with a case study and ...
It’s week 3 of the “EU and Global Cybersecurity Fundamentals” course within the “Advanced Master in Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Management” LLM at the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC)! Today Fernando Silva will address Authentication, Access controls and Database, Data Center and Network Security. We’ll commence the lecture by taking a deep dive into authentication. Authentication ...
It’s tutorial time! Today the students of our EU and Global Cybersecurity Fundamentals course in the ECPC Advanced Master in Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Management will be requested to discuss the EU Cybersecurity Strategy and the relevant legal framework, isolating the fundamental elements, policy objectives, scope and legal obligations for the relevant stakeholders. The new EU Cybersecurity Strategy was presented on 16 December 2020 by the Commission ...
It's week 2 of the EU and Global Cybersecurity Fundamentals course within the Advanced Master in Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Management LLM we created at ECPC! Today I will lecture on the EU cybersecurity legal framework live from Dakar, Senegal, where I am lecturing in the Data Protection Officer (DPO) Humanitarian Action Certificate course. Specifically, we will explore the intricacies of the European ...
The students of our EU and Global Cybersecurity Fundamentals course in the ECPC Advanced Master in Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Management will be confronted with a practical case which will require them to apply their knowledge of the fundamentals of cybersecurity and different types of threats and attacks, and propose measures to deal with them, with a specific focus on encryption. Our EU and ...
I am very pleased that today we will start teaching the EU and Global Cybersecurity Fundamentals course within the Advanced Master in Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Management LLM we created at ECPC. Today we will kick off the course with Brian Honan, who will lecture on the concept of cybersecurity and provide an introduction to cryptographic tools. Having in place a meaningful and robust ...
Tomorrow I am running the TCS Amsterdam Marathon to raise funds for the volunteer organization Fiori di Campo and its Children with Rare Diseases Project. To run a marathon is about fighting against yourself and your weaknesses, it entails testing yourself physically and mentally, pushing forward when you think you can’t go on any longer. It ...
The United Kingdom (UK) is demonstrating its agility on data transfers after leaving the European Union (EU). Through its global data plans and new strategic alliances (i.e., adequacy procedures) the UK is moving ahead to reshape international data flows and the global digital economy. The United States, Australia, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, the Dubai International Finance Centre, ...
Last week I was interviewed by Laurie Clarke about the future of EU-US data transfers and what the US needs to do to make a new agreement a reality. Read “After a year of limbo a EU-US data privacy agreement still hangs in the balance” published in Tech Monitor, part of the New Statesman Media ...
How can the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) be effectively enforced so as to uphold fundamental rights and freedoms and at the same time, allow for the free flow of data within the Union? This is a question I have been pondering since well before Monday’s publication of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties’s (ICCL) 2021 report on the ...
Top-tier European ICT, Privacy & Cybersecurity lawyer. Professor of Privacy, Cybersecurity, and IT Contract Law at the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC) within the Maastricht University Faculty of Law. Founding Partner of ICT Legal Consulting. Lead Auditor BS ISO/IEC 27001:2013.
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