Cyber Security and Laws

Unit 1

Introduction: Review of TCP/IP and TCP, IP Header analysis, Introduction to Cyber World, Cyber attacks and cyber security, Information warfare and cyber terrorism, Types of cyber attacks, Cyber Crime and Digital Fraud, Overview of Types of computer forensics i.e. Media Forensics, Network forensics (internet forensics), Machine forensic, Email forensic (e-mail tracing and investigations)

Unit 2

Issues in cyber security: Private ordering solutions, Regulation and Jurisdiction for global Cyber security, Copy Right-source of risks, Pirates, Internet Infringement, Fair Use, postings, criminal liability, First Amendments, Data Loss.

Unit 3

Intellectual property rights: Copy Right-Source of risks, Pirates, Internet Infringement, Fair Use, postings, Criminal Liability, First Amendments, Losing Data, Trademarks, Defamation, Privacy-Common Law Privacy, Constitutional law, Federal Statutes, Anonymity, Technology expanding privacy rights.

Unit 4

Procedural Issues Duty of Care, Criminal Liability, Procedural issues, Electronic Contracts & Digital Signatures, Misappropriation of information, Civil Rights, Tax, Evidence.

Unit 5

Legal aspects of cyber security: Ethics, Legal Developments, Late 1990 to 2000,Cyber security in Society, Security in cyber laws case. studies, General law and Cyber Law-a Swift Analysis.

REFERENCES:

1. Jonathan Rosenoer,“Cyber Law: The law of the Internet”, Springer-Verlag, 1997.

2. D. Bainbridge, Introduction to Computer Law, 5th Edition, Pearson Education, 2004.

3. P. Duggal, Cyber Law: The Indian Perspective, Saakshar Law Publications, 2005.

4. Mark F Grady, Fransesco Parisi, “The Law and Economics of Cyber Security”, Cambridge University Press, 2006.