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ITD100: Identity Theft: Reducing Personal Risk and Surviving in a Wired Economy

CPE credits: 7

Description: Every electronic footprint you leave behind during your Internet surfing and electronic commerce can be collected, combined, analyzed, and turned into a digital mosaic of your life. This data can be sold or even stolen! Examine the growing loss of personal and consumer privacy and the potential for an unethical use of this technology, while learning to safely and securely utilize the full power of the Internet to conduct business or for personal use. This seminar will provide the attendee with valuable resources, and insights into cloaking their on-line identity, avoiding cookie monsters, protecting credit information, plugging information leaks, assessing security exposures and even coping with identity theft after an impostor strikes. Also addressed will be what role the security professional can play in providing control assessment and recommendations to senior management for protecting and safeguarding personal and corporate confidential data.

Audience: This seminar is intended for Chief Technology Officers, General Counsels, Chief Information Officers, Chief Security Officers, Controllers, Chief Privacy Officers, acting Privacy Officers, managers responsible for directing internal and external audit professionals, Human Relations professionals charged with implementing innovative EAP programs, and any individual who wishes to learn how to take a proactive stance in protecting their individual privacy.

Prerequisites: There is no prerequisite for this seminar.

Objectives: After completing this seminar, participants will be able to answer the following questions:

What Is Identity Theft?
Why Should I Care?
How Can Someone Steal My Identity?
Am I an ID Thief's Next Victim?
What If It Happens To Me?

And be able to:

Identify Low-Tech Methods of Identity Theft Protection
Investigate the Feasibility of Implementing Privacy-Enhancing Technologies, Or "Pets"
Implement 10 Steps to Plug Personal Information Leaks
Recognize that Privacy Theft is an Implication of ID Theft

Course Outline:

What Is Identity Theft?

Identity theft involves acquiring key pieces of someone's identifying information in order to impersonate them and commit various crimes in that person's name.

Why Should I Care?

The theft of your identity can leave you with a poor credit rating and a ruined reputation which may take months or even years to correct.

How Can Someone Steal Your Identity?

Ways, means, and examples from actual victims

Are You an ID Thief’s Next Victim?

Case study of actual ID Thefts carried out by the seminar leader
Electronic Profiling: Digitally Tracking Your Life

Low-Tech Methods of Identity Theft Protection

Identification of policies and procedures for both corporations and individuals

Privacy-Enhancing Technologies, Or "Pets"

An examination of current technologies available that both track, as well as conceal individual identities

What If It Happens To Me?

What to Do and Whom to Contact if You are a Victim

10 Steps to Plug the Information Leaks

Examination and Discussion on How to Not to Become a Victim of ID Theft

Privacy Theft: Implications of ID Theft

Ramification to Your Personal Privacy will be Examined

Dr. Marcella's seminar is based upon findings from his book, www.STOPTHIEF.net: Protecting Your Identity on the Web, published by the Institute of Internal Auditors.

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