Cybersecurity Law & Data Sovereignty

Navigate EU cybersecurity laws, ensuring compliance in data handling and cybercrime investigations.

Key Details

This module is delivered in hybrid format, as a combination of online, in-person and self-learning activities. The module uses innovative hybrid learning methods that combine live (synchronous) and self-paced (asynchronous) activities, with particular focus on practical activities and real-world scenarios connected to cybersecurity. Expert tutors guide students through the material, ensuring a comprehensive learning experience.

This module aims to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of the legal frameworks governing cybersecurity and cybercrime, including obligations, liabilities, and tools for ensuring compliance such as certification standards. Toward this goal the module employs periodic quizzes, in-class participation and assignments.

Time commitment:

• Online activities: 7 hours
• In-person activities: 7 hours
• Self-learning: 28 hours
• Individual, team and guided projects and activities: 58 hours
• Total: 100 hours

Credit points: 4 ECTS

Grading:

• Lecture quizzes: 10%
• Seminar work: 10%
• Assignments: 30%
• Exam: 50% (scenario essay, quiz)

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Subjects covered

Cybersecurity and Cybercrime

Theory and Practice of Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity Incidents

Tools for Coordination and Standardisation

Procedural Criminal Law

Categorisation of Cybercrime

European and International Procedural Tools

Data Sovereignty

Legal Dimensions of Data Sovereignty

Compliances and Professional Practices Within the EU

Handling Electronic Documents

Use of Electronic Identification and Digital Identity

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Learning objectives

Apply legal principles to assess cybersecurity obligations and liabilities in different organizational contexts.

Analyze case law, legal provisions, and procedural tools to evaluate the best approach for investigation, prosecution, and compliance.

Develop compliance plans aligned with EU data sovereignty regulations, including measures for processing personal data, data sharing, and electronic evidence handling.

Utilize international and European procedural tools to support effective investigation and prosecution of cybercrimes.

Design policies and procedures for handling electronic documents, digital identities, and electronic evidence to ensure legal compliance and data protection.

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Module leaders

Giorgiana is an Assistant Professor at POLITEHNICA Bucharest, the Computer Science and Engineering Department. She is interested in privacy, embedded systems, and fault tolerance. Giorgiana is passionate about teaching and personal growth.

Most of the work that Giorgiana is involved in is touching on various security topics, discussing data confidentiality, privacy enhancing technologies, software architecture. She helped over 100 students kickstart their careers in tech. On the open source side, Giorgiana is a member of the ROSEdu (Romanian Open Source Education) association, organizing extracurricular classes and projects dealing with open source and by supporting students to take part in Google Summer of Code.

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