Cyber Law, Policies and Compliance
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Cyber Law, Policies and Compliance Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Cyber Law, Policies and Compliance (subject code 4715901) as prescribed for CS · Semester 1 divides the course into 7 units, covering 53 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (4715901)Unit 1 UNIT-I
- Introduction Cyberspace
- Nature of threats
- Enabling peoples
- Cybersecurity Policy
- Current cybercrime scenario and challenges
Unit 2 UNIT-II
- Cyber Offenses Categories of Cybercrimes – Active and Passive attacks
- How Criminals plan them
- Tools and Methods used in cybercrime
- Social Engineering
- Classification of the cybercrimes
Unit 3 UNIT-III
- Cybercrime Legal Perspective Introduction to the Legal Perspectives of Cybercrimes and Cybersecurity
- Cybercrime, and the Legal Landscape around the World
- The Indian IT Act, Challenges to Indian Law and Cybercrime Scenario in India
- Digital Signatures and the Indian IT Act, Cybercrime and Punishment
- Technology and Students: Indian Scenario
Unit 4 UNIT-IV
- Computer Ethics
- Privacy & Legislation Computer ethics
- moral and legal issues
- descriptive and normative claims
- Professional Ethics
- code of ethics and professional conduct
- Computers and privacy issue
- Digital Evidence Controls
- Evidence Handling Procedures
- Basics of Indian Evidence ACT, Negotiable Instruments Act 1881(Amended)
- IPC and CrPC
- Electronic Communication Privacy ACT, Legal Policies
- Wef-AY-2021-22 legislative background
- Computer contracts
- liability for defective hardware and software
- software contracts
- web and hardware contracts
- electronic contracts and torts
Unit 5 UNIT-V
- Computer Forensic Understanding Computer Forensics: Digital forensic Science
- Need for Digital forensic
- Cyber Forensic, and digital Evidence and rules of Evidence
- Forensics Analysis
- Digital Forensic Life Cycle
Unit 6 UNIT-VI
- Intellectual property issues in cyberspace Introduction to intellectual property
- computer software copyrights
- copyright in databases and electronic publishing
- the law of confidence
- product designs
- international law, Copyright
- Trade Secrets
- protection of intellectual property
- Protection options – Encryption
- copyright on web-content
- copyright on software
- Ethical Decision Making: Types of ethical choices
- making defensible decisions
Unit 7 UNIT-VII
- Current Trends The latest development in the cyber laws
- policies and rules
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