Legal Data Security Seminar
The Legal Issues of Strategic Information Management: Dealing with Data Protection and Theft
A Free Seminar for Legal Professionals
Friday, May 1, 2009
1 to 3 p.m.
Syracuse University’s Lubin House
11 East 61st Street (between Madison and Fifth avenues)
New York, NY
Overview
In today’s information-driven society and marketplace, understanding the strategic relationship of information to an organization is critical in ensuring the success, and even survival, of that organization. Electronic discovery has become a vital part of legal cases. Trade secrets are increasingly kept in digital form throughout an organization on a global scale. Data breach and the loss of personal information has the potential to bankrupt any business.
So whether the information handled by any organization takes the form of e-mail correspondence, text messages, electronic health records, intellectual property files, economic intelligence, audit logs of databases or e-files, audio files, or Internet searches, most attorneys encounter the need to understand the issues surrounding an organization's requirement to locate, obtain, and secure electronic data during their day-to-day practice.
Attorney and information privacy and security expert Kenneth P. Mortensen, former acting chief privacy and civil liberties officer at the U.S. Department of Justice and adjunct professor in the Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool), will lead this free, two-hour seminar for attorneys and legal professionals on the legal issues surrounding strategic information management, including data protection and theft.
Following the seminar, there will be an informal reception for participants to network with Prof. Mortsensen and each other. They can also hear about another opportunity to improve their data security skills this summer.
Program Goals
Participants will:
- Understand the legal issues surrounding strategic information management, focusing on data privacy and security
- Learn about sustainable information management concepts to ensure the connection of an organization's goals to its handling of information
- Gain a federal perspective from a former top official with the U.S. Department of Justice
- Network with other lawyers interested in privacy issues and information security
- Hear about a credit-bearing opportunity to improve information security/privacy skills this summer.
Related Intensive Summer Program--Information Sessions
Noon to 1 p.m. or 3 to 4 p.m. on Friday, May 1
Participants are welcome to attend one of two information sessions before or after the legal security seminar. Professor Scott Bernard, director of Exectuve Education, will introduce an intensive security certificate program this summer and other executive education opportunities at the iSchool. He will also host an interactive question and answer session about these offerings.
The five-week, intensive Certificate of Advanced Study in Information Security Management program this summer in New York City enables mid-career professionals to develop a familiarity with information security issues, earn 15 graduate credits, and re-purpose their resumes to fill the growing number of jobs related to information security management. The program runs from June 1 through July 2, 2009, at the Lubin House. Students can complete the five-week program or can choose to take select one-week courses.
To RSVP for an information session, please e-mail sccolson@syr.edu or call 315-443-6885. For more information, visit http://ischool.syr.edu/summersecurity.
About the presenter:
Attorney Kenneth P. Mortensen is the former acting chief privacy and civil liberties officer at the U.S. Department of Justice, serving in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, and an adjunct faculty member at the iSchool. At the department, he advised the U.S. attorney general and deputy attorney general on the strategic management of information, including safeguarding the privacy and civil liberties of individuals. Additionally, he served as deputy chief privacy officer at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, was outside counsel for the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General on technology and privacy matters, and was a founding and managing partner of the law firm Harvey & Mortensen in the Philadelphia metropolitan region.
Mortensen earned a B.S.E.E. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Drexel University, a J.D. from Villanova University School of Law, and an M.B.A. in entrepreneurial leadership from Villanova University College of Commerce and Finance. He is a member of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bars and has been admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. Mortensen is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (www.privacyassociation.org), holding both Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) and Certified Information Privacy Professional – Government (CIPP/G) certifications.
The iSchool at Syracuse is ranked No. 1 in the nation for information systems, second in digital libraries, and third in library and information studies, according to 2009 U.S. News & World Report rankings. It is an internationally renowned center for innovative programs in information policy, information behavior, information management, information systems, information technology, and information services. The school offers an undergraduate degree, certificates of advanced studies, three professional master’s degree programs, Doctorate of Professional Studies, and a Ph.D. All the graduate certificate and master's degree programs can be completed online or on campus in part-time or full-time studies. The Professional Doctorate is also a part-time, online program with limited residencies.
For more information, contact:
Scott Bernard, Ph.D.
Director of Executive Education
sabernar@syr.edu
315-443-6885