NSA-approved cybersecurity law and policy course now available online

Anyone who is interested in cybersecurity law and policy can now take an online course that was partly shaped by National Security Agency. The course, which can be accessed through Penn State University’s Clark Center, touches on international and domestic cybersecurity law, cyber risk and technical details like how smartphones function, according to Anne McKenna, a Penn State professor who organized the course. James Houck, director of Penn State’s Center for Security Research and Education, told CyberScoop that program will serve as a primer to the legal and technical details of offensive and defensive cyber-operations. “What we’re trying to do … is create a framework for people who are trying to be introduced to cyber law, to offensive, defensive cyber operations, and for them to learn the fundamentals, the framework — and in our case legal authorities for how these work,” Houck said. Houck clarified that although the NSA put out […]

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